Huxley on Orwell; Alex Jones

Late last night, I was poking around Alex Jones Prison Planet site, looking at Trailers for Endgame, the new film about the Bilderberg Group and their World Elite pals (Jones claims he’s exposed these bastards, who want to kill off 80% of the world population to make their power grab easier).  Jones has put up a slideshow emphasizing main points covered in the film.

On slide #44, Jones considers the relative significance of Aldous Huxley’s 1962 ‘Ultimate Revolution’ Speech at Berkeley.  After a quick Google search, I found audio links to Huxley’s speech and an ‘edited’ transcript.  It underscores much of the material we’ve covered in the Huxley-Orwell debate.  More to the point, I was thrilled when Huxley talked about Orwell’s 1984 scenario and why BNW is more likely to manifest.  What a find!

Here’s are some choice snippets.  Links to the audio/text of Huxley’s speech are below.

If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent, it’s exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion, an element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them.

[Here, Huxley talks about Orwell's work:]

Whereas my own book which was written in 1932 when there was only a mild dictatorship in the form of Mussolini in existence, was not overshadowed by the idea of terrorism, and I was therefore free in a way in which Orwell was not free, to think about these other methods of control, these non-violent methods and my, I’m inclined to think that the scientific dictatorships of the future, and I think there are going to be scientific dictatorships in many parts of the world, will be probably a good deal nearer to the brave new world pattern than to the 1984 pattern, they will a good deal nearer not because of any humanitarian qualms of the scientific dictators but simply because the BNW pattern is probably a good deal more efficient than the other.

That if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they’re living. The state of servitude the state of being, having their differences ironed out, and being made amenable to mass production methods on the social level, if you can do this, then you have, you are likely, to have a much more stable and lasting society. Much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs and firing squads and concentration camps. So that my own feeling is that the 1984 picture was tinged of course by the immediate past and present in which Orwell was living, but the past and present of those years does not reflect, I feel, the likely trend of what is going to happen, needless to say we shall never get rid of terrorism, it will always find its way to the surface.

Links:

“The Ultimate Revolution,” Aldous Huxley’s Berkeley Speech, March 20, 1962 – listen to RAM or view the TRANSCRIPT.

Berkeley Language Center – Speech Archive SA 0269 (Audio)

Prison Planet Archive: Bilderberg

Rockefeller Internationalism - Nexus Magazine (online archive)

~ by wolfmoonlady on November 14, 2007.