“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious
Orwell knew what was coming
Orwell knew what had already arrived he just added a sci fi layer to the way the British carry on. Same as Huxley, they were writing about what they knew. Huxley saw California in the 1930s and added a sci fi layer to write Brave New World TPTSB started the frog on a low heat a long time ago, its starting to really boil now
I thought I remembered reading that Huxley had a connection to Tavistock, but this is the only thing I could find after a short search. https://archive.org/details/AldousHuxley--TheUltimateRevolution--ABlueprintToEnslaveTheMasses
I remember James Corbett talking about him too. Huxley did more than just visit California. He was an insider who knew a lot of the people that were planning to do what he wrote about. H.G. Wells and Carrol Quigley fit the same mold.
Imo it seemed like Orwell envisioned it being forced on us, whereas Huxley thought we would basically want it.
Orwell saw it arrive in Spain. He went to fight like a good little leftie and instead got turned on and almost assassinated by the Jewish communists. 1984 and The Gulag Archipelago read pretty similarly because they're describing the same behavior from the same regime.
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance.
What you're describing sounds like paradise compared to reality, in reality many if not most have had their jobs taken by the state, whites are decentivized from breeding, women have rights to kill the child, and it's damn near impossible to find a woman to bear your children in the first place.
Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds
Instead we have unemployment, no children to take care of, many whites without homes, it's illegal to talk to your neighbors, the movies are all shit and overly politicized, same with sports, few have the spending money to spend on alcohol, and gambling means the jew or prairie nigger always wins in the end because of anti-gambling laws designed to crush independent and off the books competition.
I agree. Orwell was writing what he knew. We have censored fakebook feeds filled with illiterate drivel, passive sedentary jobs and lifestyles. The list is endless. 1984 might explain the motives of the oligarchs but it is poor in predicting social life, it is more about the UK/London in the 1940s. Brave New World is closer in the way it depicts scientific social engineering but its predicted class system is not a 1:1 map of clown world. In Brave New World all the classes are socially "useful"
Demolition Man is looking scarily prescient.
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