This is the most vital information for human beings to process right now.
Unfortunately, the ego can't and won't do anything with it.
I hope this message can penetrate through the masks of as many people as is possible, my own included because I'm 26 years old and it seems very clear to me that I'm surrounded by a lot of madness. It's in my family, my friends, in the strangers I encounter daily, and I get wrapped up in it myself more often than I'd like to. We have to wake up and become fearlessly peaceful and have an open heart if we don't want this human experience to end in "tragedy".
Brave New World is a short term prediction which is why it was so spot on, while 1984 is identifying a fundamental trend in human culture, or better yet a fundamental nature of existence. Right now we're Brave New World, once genetic engineering and other forms of fundamentally altering the human body are mastered it's going to start going 1984. Resource scarcity will also move us more towards 1984.
While certainly frightening and semi-prophetic, the real danger to Western nations is the dystopia Huxley wrote in his novel. Our world reflects his dark vision more accurately - for there is no need for a big brother when the people become apathetic & ignorant, and more concerned about themselves, their delights, & distractions, which the state is all too eager to provide...
Freedom is all in the mind
Mind control that Orwell speaks of is mental oppression, which is done by the governments, ruling powers, politicians etc. to subjugate the citizens. Looking at their sick news programs and media channels, newspapers, websites etc. will just enforce their mental control over you, you will believe more and more in their web of deceit. Take control means to think for yourself, don't think according to what the oppressors tell you, read between the lines, seek out real information that is not polluted or controlled by "them".
"In our world there will be no emotions, except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement." I wondered if he shouldn't have included 'anger'; there is so much anger in the west, name calling, put downs to any thought different from the centred, and this is especially true of Republicans and Democrats in American Elections in their hate language. Then I looked again and thought, no, 'triumph' and 'rage' indeed cover it all. They are like an umbrella that covers all the lesser words of self-importance such as self-righteous anger; as those with political anger so often feel that they know it all. They speak of 'triumph' with rage as if they speak of the truth, from the perspective of clear eyes and mind. I am very pleased to have had the chance to view this poignant clip from a great man.
Once fear sinks in, thinking stops
It depends on the choices people make. Right now there is a surprisingly adult conversation about the implications of altering the nature of a human being, but I think once there are real concrete incentives like life extension and physical perfecting we will just go action without consequence and start engineering master classes and conforming slaves. In 1984 the ultimate aspirations of the three ruling parties of the world were basically unified (they used war to create artificial resource scarcity), what they wanted was perfect mind control and genocide so they could completely dominate their group of people, and wipe out all competing groups.I think with gene altering technologies soon we will have those exact technologies that the ruling parties of 1984 long sought. Viruses/Bacteria/Prions that can control or destroy the entirety of the human race. We'll shift from a culture of self-imposed post-industrial people to a type of super-survivor Matrix machine. It will start with a big conflict, maybe over resources, or maybe over the definition of what a living thing is and what that actually means.
Albert Camus wrote the classic book the stranger which features a detached ironic hero, who cannot accept any of the standard answers for why things are the way they are. Sees hypocrisy and sentimentality everywhere and cannot overlook it, A man who can’t accept the normal explanations, given to explain things like the education system, the workplace, relationships or the mechanism of governments, stands outside normal bourgeois life - belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. member of the middle class or property owner. Highly critical of its pinched morality and narrow concerns for money and family.
Doesn’t play the game. Refuses to lie. Says what he is, refuses to hide feelings and so society immediately feels threatened.
We have enough freedom to realise we are in a cage but not quite enough freedom to escape it. When no one seems to understand and everything appears a little hopeless.
It's the brightest minds often who have such troubles. I think they wanted to escape the harsh reality that was this society/culture and still is. When you think like they do, it's hard to deal with the"reality" we face everyday. They are pioneers in the fact they could see that the problem solving of the world is in fact causing more problems.
We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, that the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money? And that all of this is much more dangerous, really, than one thinks? And that it’s not just a question of individual survival, but that somebody who’s bored is asleep? Somebody who is asleep will not say no.”
