60 Years Ago Aldous Huxley Predicted How Global Freedom Would DieBy Isaac Davis Huxley, as introduced by Wallace: A man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. ~Mike Wallace Asthe world now sleepwalks into a third world war which will certain bring about a nuclear holocaust, Huxleys message is more important than ever because it serves as a reminder that a critically thinking individual is the truest and most formidableweapon against the destructive and psychopathic tendencies of tyrants. The following 6 predictions taken from thisinterview were exceptionally farsighted at the time, and are presented here as an amplification of Huxleys imperative that we all must wake up to the truth of how power is misused in our world. HUXLEY: As technology becomes more and more complicated, it becomes necessary to have more and more elaborate organizations, more hierarchical organizations, and incidentally the advance of technology is being accompanied by an advance in the science of organization. Its now possible to make organizations on a larger scale than it was ever possible before, and so that you have more and more people living their lives out as subordinates in these hierarchical systems controlled by bureaucracy, either the bureaucracies of big businesses or the bureaucracies of big government. HUXLEY: Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, but he also used a very efficient form of propaganda, which erhe was using every modern device at that time. He didnt have TV, but he had the radio which he used to the fullest extent, and was able to impose his will on an immense mass of people. I mean, the Germans were a highly educated people. HUXLEY: Needless to say it is not being used this way now, but, erthe point is, it seems to me, that there are methods at present available, methods superior in some respects to Hitlers method, which could be used in a bad situation. I mean, what I feel very strongly is that we mustnt be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history with technologys advance and this changes social condition, and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didnt foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didnt want to do. WALLACE: And well, whatwhat do you mean? Do you mean that we develop our television but we dont know how to use it correctly, is that the point that youre making? HUXLEY: Well, at the present the television, I think, is being used quite harmlessly; its being used, I think, I would feel, its being used too much to distract everybody all the time. But, I mean, imagine which must be the situation in all communist countries where the television, where it exists, is always saying the same things the whole time; its always driving along. Its not creating a wide front of distraction its creating a one-pointed, erdrumming in of a single idea, all the time. Its obviously an immensely powerful instrument. WALLACE: Uh-huh. So youre talking about the potential misuse of the instrument. HUXLEY: Exactly. We have, of courseall technology is in itself moral and neutral. These are just powers which can either be used well or ill; it is the same thing with atomic energy, we can either use it to blow ourselves up or we can use it as a substitute for the coal and the oil which are running out. HUXLEY:advertisement plays a very necessary role, but the danger it seems to me in a democracy is thisI mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance. But what these people are doing, I mean what both, for their particular purposes, for selling goods and the dictatorial propagandists are for doing, is to try to bypass the rational side of man and to appeal directly to these unconscious forces below the surfaces so that you are, in a way, making nonsense of the whole democratic procedure, which is based on conscious choice on rational ground. WALLACE: Of course, well, maybeIyou have just answered this next question because in your essay you write about television commercials, not just political commercials, but television commercials as such and how, as you put it, Todays children walk around singing beer commercials and toothpaste commercials. And then you link this phenomenon in some way with the dangers of a dictatorship. Now, could you spell out the connection or, haveor do you feel youve done so sufficiently? HUXLEY: Well, I mean, here, this whole question of children, I think, is a terribly important one because children are quite clearly much more suggestible than the average grownup; and again, suppose that, erthat for one reason or another all the propaganda was in the hands of one or very few agencies, you would have an extraordinarily powerful force playing on these children, who after all are going to grow up and be adults quite soon. I do think that this is not an immediate threat, but it remains a possible threat, and WALLACE: You said something to the effect in your essay that the children of Europe used to be called cannon fodder and here in the United States they are television and radio fodder. HUXLEY: Well, after all, you can read in the trade journals the most lyrical accounts of how necessary it is, to get hold of the children because then they will be loyal brand buyers later on. But I mean, again you just translate this into political terms, the dictator says they all will be ideology buyers when they are grownup. HUXLEY: I think this kind of dictatorship of the future, I think will be very unlike the dictatorships which weve been familiar with in the immediate past. I mean, take another book prophesying the future, which was a very remarkable book, George Orwells 1984. Well, this book was written at the height of the Stalinist regime, and just after the Hitler regime, and there he foresaw a dictatorship using entirely the methods of terror, the methods of physical violence. Now, I think what is going to happen in the future is that dictators will find, as the old saying goes, that you can do everything with bayonets except sit on them! HUXLEY:this is the the pharmacological revolution which is taking place, that we have now powerful mind-changing drugs which physiologically speaking are almost costless. I mean they are not like opium or like cocacocaine, which do change the state of mind but leave terrible results physiologically and morally. if you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled, and this they will do partly by drugs as I foresaw in Brave New World, partly by these new techniques of propaganda. They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious and his deeper emotions, and his physiology even, and so, making him actually love his slavery. I mean, I think, this is the danger that actually people may be, in some ways, happy under the new regime, but that they will be happy in situations where they oughtnt to be happy. We know, there is enough evidence now for us to be able, on the basis of this evidence and using certain amount of creative imagination, to foresee the kind of uses which could be made by people of bad will with these things and to attempt to forestall this WALLACE: You write in Enemies of Freedom, you write specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns you say, All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter. HUXLEY: Well, this is theduring the last campaign, there was a great deal of this kind of statement by the advertising managers of the campaign parties. This idea that the candidates had to be merchandised as though they were soap and toothpaste and that you had to depend entirely on the personality. I mean, personality is important, but there are certainly people with an extremely amiable personality, particularly on TV, who might not necessarily be very good in politicalpositions of political trust. WALLACE: Well, do you feel that men like Eisenhower, Stevenson, Nixon, with knowledge aforethought were trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public? HUXLEY: No, but they were being advised by powerful advertising agencies who were making campaigns of a quite different kind from what had been made before. and I think we shall see probably, erall kinds of new devices coming into the picture. I mean, for example, this thing which got a good deal of publicity last autumn, subliminal projection. WALLACE: And well be persuaded to vote for a candidate that we do not know that we are being persuaded to vote for. HUXLEY: Exactly, I mean this is the rather alarming picture that youre being persuaded below the level of choice and reason. WALLACE: The question, of course, that keeps coming back to my mind is this: obviously politics in themselves are not evil, television is not in itself evil, atomic energy is not evil, and yet you seem to fear that it will be used in an evil way. Why is it that the right people will not, in your estimation, use them? Why is it that the wrong people will use these various devices and for the wrong motives? HUXLEY: Well, I think one of the reasons is that these are all instruments for obtaining power, and obviously the passion for power is one of the most moving passions that exists in man; and after all, all democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one man or any one small group have too much power for too long a time. After all what are the British and American Constitution except devices for limiting power, and all these new devices are extremely efficient instruments for the imposition of power by small groups over larger masses. This interview was recorded 27 years after the publication of Brave New World, which in and of itself was an eloquent warning to freedom-loving people. Fast-forward to 2016 and we find that Huxley was right on every account, after all, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ~Aldous Huxley Watch the full interview here: Read more articles byIsaac Davis. Isaac Davisis a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. Heis an outspoken advocate of liberty andof a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficientto break free of the control matrix.Follow him on Facebook, here. Like Waking Times on Facebook. Follow Waking Times on Twitter. A very different take on Huxley by other researchers is that his novel and his public pronouncements were predictive programming rather than a warning. Huxleys brother, Sir Julian Huxley, was a biologist and eugenics advocate who chartered and became the first Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Further, Aldous Huxleys mentor was Fabian Socialist H.G. Wells (Fabian motto/icon = wolf in sheeps clothing), a big proponent of an authoritarian world government, ran in elitist circles, was involved in the UN by writing its first declaration of human rights, and wrote his own predictive programming novels on the creation of WMDs that would force the world to submit to a Federation of Mankind, the common term for world govt in that era. Stellar original research by Jan Irvin and his associates at Gnostic Media investigating a huge trove of official govt documents (some previously classified) through FOIA requests, has shown that Aldous Huxley was directly involved with MK Ultra and the CIAs program to kick start the psychedelic era with Huxley having a hand in the recruitment of Tim Leary (LSD). In a 1949 letter Huxley sent to Orwell (Eric Blair) he wrote: Within the next generation I believe that the worlds leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience Thank you for this input!!! Youre very welcome. FYI ter ber, more info can be found here: Aldous Leonard Huxley Fabian motto/icon = wolf in sheeps clothing yeah, incrementalism.theres the Trilateral Commission icon of 3 rotating sixesChina G20 emblem with the all seeing eyethe bizarre US military patches. Would have loved to hear what George Carlin might say. I will stand in for Carlin.. You ever watch russianvids on YouTube? Hes a bit crazy, but comes up with some excellent 33s and 666s. Never heard of thatbut now Im severely cutting back on Gestapo-Tube. Did you hear about YTs Heroes Program? Deafening silence in what passes for alt media. Sent you a longer reply on this with some links and forgot about the AP censorship system (and worse, I cannot edit the offending links) so it will come through whenever the moderates get to it.. [I saw this post needed editing anyway, ignore moderated post if it makes it through please] Yes Blue, I am familiar with the Heroes Programs, and the agenda behind YTs dumbing down/brainwashing content particular as it relates children. On a slight tangent this channel (Seven Super Girls) is reflective many non-pornographic channels I have found directed toward dumbing down/sexualizing girls and certainly a gateway for mainstreaming pedo-culture. youtube dot com /results?search_query=seven+super+girls Site Stats: Its worth taking a look at the channel stats/views and watching a few videos to grasp the nature of the beast from a psychological perspective. Of course I am sure this is nothing new to you, but I am curious to hear your thoughts. The channel says now the channel was created in 2008, but I specifically remember an earlier date (2006) when I was doing research in this area a couple years ago meaning the agenda was in mind long before it became popular. On the other hand, there are YT channels like Spoken Verse that I cannot find anything like it elsewhere on the internet: youtube dot com channel/UCRKwFdsTSXeERjxe8wHfbig There is no real replacement (that I am aware of at least) for user composition videos like this one on Cornel West stuff I enjoy immensely. youtube dot com /watch?v=RXvxjPzPOG8 Internet Archive ( archive dot org ) has a lot of great stuff outside of the YT ecosystem. I certainly respect your position on YT, and I myself am conflicted on whether I should be using it. Although using YT for high value content also has a way of lifting the quality of content overall methinks. Probably, even worse I subscribe to YouTube Red because its the only way to get content fully ad-free Love to hear your thoughts on this if you are so inclined. Cheers. You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him think. LOL Huxley didnt predict anything. He KNEW what was coming because he came from an elite family, as the person who posted the previous comment noted. If I know the plan because I am an insider, I tell you and it comes true I didnt predict anything. I simply told you what I already knew. How do you think Albert Pike, another massive insider, was able to predict World Wars I and II, 43 years BEFORE World War I? Lastly, Huxley and Pike reveal the time scales that the big stuff is planned out on. It is literally multiple decades. Spiridovich predicted a lot things accurately because he knew how they operated his book The Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand circa 1926. http://www.resist.com/SecretGovernment-Spiridovich.pdf Theres also the example of the Martin Keating, brother of OK governor Frank Keating (former FBI official and Asst Sec of Treasury who supervised Secret Service, Customs, and BATF; Keating uncle career intelligence offiicial), writing the manuscript for The Final Jihad four years before the OKC bombing. The novel is about terrorists based out of OKC who bomb a federal building. A main character is named Tom McVey. The terrorists are stopped when troopers pull them over for a broken tail light, whereas, the real Tim McVeigh was stopped for a missing license plate. http://rense.com/general11/tom.htm Thank you, Blue. I had this novel on my radar a while ago and forgot about it. Will give it a perusal, and maybe a read. Stranger than fiction on McVeigh indeedoh wait, this is fictionright. Cheers ! thx, Hanz time to write our own chaptersimo I was hoping Neo would have shown up by now. Cheers. Or even centuries, it would seem. Which makes me curious as to why HUMANS would care so incredibly much about what happens beyond their possible lifespans! Very strange. Maybe they just love their great-grandkids THAT MUCH!! Echoing others, yes, he was just telling us what the Elites had in mind. We were too dumb and didnt do anything about it. You were there? 1) Cameras every where. NSA capturing all digital media. SHE and They are All DISPICABLE 