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The genius of George Orwell’s predictions is simply breathtaking. Especially in the light of today’s highly remunerated ‘experts’, who, replete with information access unimaginable in Orwell’s time were nonetheless as surprised as the man in the street by – for example – the collapse of the Soviet Union. Orwell anticipated – with uncanny prescience – today’s Cultural Marxist politically correct world and the weapons used to enforce it, while many of his aphorisms have become common linguistic currency. For example…

()  Newspeak

() Doublespeak (2+2 =5), Ministry of Truth focused on lying propaganda and forcing the proles to swallow cognitive dissonance

() Thought crime

() Historical revisionism

() Re-education Room 101

()  Big Brother

()  Two Minutes Of Hate daily ritual

() And the Telescreen, which eerily foresaw the arrival of a two way device in ordinary households     by which Big Brother can exercise oversight and control. The Internet is now almost at that point.

Uncanny as his writing was, it’s fair to say that in many crucial ways his dystopian future does not reflect the world we live in today. Most notably ‘the boot stamping on the face’ metaphor. Much and all as we may dislike the present system the fact is almost all of us can – still – go about our lives relatively untroubled by Authority provided we adhere to the (increasingly intrusive) law. And it’s here that Aldous Huxley in Brave New Word and Brave New World Revisited may have developed a more realistic scenario.
For a start rather than the three permanently warring global empires envisaged by Orwell, Huxley anticipated a single unitary World State, pretty much the New World Order we now see unfolding before us. He foresaw national boundaries breaking down, racial blending and deliberate destruction of society’s fundamental institutions.  Marriage and family to be replaced by designer babies and recreational sex (‘everyone belongs to everyone else’) while religion gets replaced by the all-purpose feelgood Soma drug (‘all the advantages of Christianity, none of the defects). Crucially Huxley differed from Orwell in that rather than the jackboot he envisaged control being exercised by providing bread and circuses for a deliberately dumbed-down stupefied populace.
Neil Postman summed the difference between Orwell and Huxley as follows:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy”.

So who was right? Maybe they both were. Maybe it’s just a matter of timing.
Some observers believe that Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement while Orwell foresaw the second.  It’s clear that we have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through sensual gratification, cheap mass-produced goods, boundless credit, political theatre and amusement.  Civil liberties, including habeas corpus and protection from warrantless wiretapping, have been taken away. Basic services, including public education and health care, have been handed over to the corporations to exploit for profit. While we were entertained, the regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled and the laws that once protected us rewritten. Are we moving from a society where we are skilfully manipulated by lies and illusions to one where we are overtly controlled? Orwell saw us frightened into submission. Huxley saw us seduced into submission.
But was Huxley’s world merely the prelude to Orwell’s?
Because the facade is crumbling and Big Brother increasingly hoves into view.  It appears, particularly in the USA, that the real and permanent power wielders have realised this. America is, with stunning rapidity, being transformed into a police state in the Orwell mold. Ordinary citizens are spied on at a level unparalleled in history, new internal ‘security’ forces like the TSA have sprung up and given vastly disproportionate powers, police have become weaponised to the point of resembling an occupying army, billions of high-lethality bullets have been acquired by internal ‘security’ services, body bags and coffins pre-stacked in vast numbers, FEMA concentration camps throughout the country.  Anyone believing Europe to be immune from such developments is delusional.
The public, at some point, will have to face some very unpleasant truths.  The largest deficits in human history will have to be addressed and endless money printing is simply not a sustainable solution – despite the cheers from the whores in media and academia.  But as I always say, things will have to become much, much worse before your Average Joe’s problems can no longer be alleviated by the Soma of bread and circuses. Will they? I do not know the answer to that. But should they do so Joe will rebel, dumb and all as he has become.
We do indeed live in interesting times.

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