Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Looking at Aldous Huxley and His Brave New World Along Side Orwell’s 1984, We See Chilling Similarities. Americans Are Conditioned to be Subservient to Global Elitists.
Very few people are unfamiliar with Aldous Huxley and his novel Brave New World.
This novel is a classic rebuttal to George Orwell’s 1984 which had been published not long before and which Brave New World was meant to satirize.
Amazingly, the two novels are very much the same in some respects, both portraying a future in which nearly all men have become enslaved.
What most people don’t know is the role that eugenics, the science of artificial natural selection for humans, played in Huxley’s novel.
Both Brave New World and 1984 were written before modern science had discovered DNA or truly understood genetics or gene manipulation though the science of artificial selection.
To understand why this would play a part in Huxley’s novel and not Orwell’s, all we need to do is look at the two men.
Huxley’s family was full of biologists, one of whom was a Novel Laureat (Andrew Huxley) and another a prominent figure in the eugenics science of the day (Julian Huxley).
At the time of Huxley’s novel, eugenics was the science of the day, twenty years after Dr. Josef Mengle’s work had been rediscovered and popularized at the turn of the century.
In the novel, Huxley used eugenics prominently to create the classes of humans who populated the Brave New World. Thus, the Eugenics of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was born.
Aldous Huxley: VS. 1984
With a major difference between the two novels being eugenics (which was included in one and not the other), the reasons for the differences between the two can be more easily understood.
Orwell wrote 1984 as a purely totalitarian society, with Big Brother ruling the people with an iron fist.
That ball-and-chain control was countermanded by the vision of Aldous Huxley, who saw a Brave New World coming in which eugenics would create a happy, contented people happy to follow, sheep-like, the wishes of the rulers.
In Huxley’s view (and probably correctly), a forced populace would rebel, sooner or later, while a contented one will not.
In other words, give them the semblance of freedom and happiness, and they’ll go along with it believing they are both free and happy.
Whether they really are or not is immaterial, as the conditioning (training) and perception (belief) will make them so. See any parallels with today?
Eugenics Makes this Happen?
If you are a dog owner, a gardener, or at least have the general idea of how dog breeding and training or horticulture works, you have the basic idea of how eugenics also works.
Eugenics is, quite literally, the training of humans by conditioning. Most people know of the theory of Pavlov’s Bell.
A dog, if hearing a bell before being fed or given a treat, will eventually associate the bell with food and salivate on the sound, whether food is forthcoming or not. Aldous Huxley was very familiar with this science.
Human conditioning is similar and all of us practice it every day. You teach your children through this method; you learn things yourself through eugenics, and so forth.
What makes ‘eugenics’ a science is when it’s carefully supplied in controlled ways to make artificial change in a selective way.
In other words, eugenics is the science of combining breeding with conditioning, carefully teaching people to act or behave in certain or specific ways based upon the application of selective conditioning.
In this way, children are taught to behave, teenagers are taught to conform and adults are taught to kill.
Does Eugenics Exist Today?
While the recognized science of eugenics is no longer publicly around in most major universities, and the science fell out of favor during the World Wars, the eugenics that Huxley was familiar with is very much alive today.
It is quietly practiced and carefully used to manipulate some people to fit a mold for their expected role.
While much of what might be thought of as eugenics is really just societal pressure (which has been around since the dawn of man), much of it is specifically controlled and can be called scientific eugenics.
The best observation of this can be seen in a military boot camp. During training, recruits are systematically exposed to conditions of combat, deprivation, humiliation and more.
When they are done, they come out if it (as the Marine Corps says) as finely honed killing machines.
This is an extreme example, of course, and this sort of eugenics has its place to be sure.
In fact, military training is a fairly rudimentary form of eugenics.
More precise scientific eugenics are instead done for the life of the individual, on a huge scale, and almost exactly in the way that Aldous Huxley envisioned.
The next time you watch the news, read the newspaper, listen to the radio or otherwise go about your day, try to see it in a different light.
How eugenics is applied to us all today should be apparent in government regulation, impediments upon our rights as free humans and the enslavement that the banking industry has brought upon us all.