by d 22 Replies latest jw friends
Yea I see what you're saying ...in Brave New World the drug Soma was the currency...they got paid in Soma for their day's work and it had the added bonus of keeping them acquiescent to their stilted controlled lives....in today's Western society individuals choose to medicate to avoid dealing with reality....those ppl didnt have a choice...
Loz x
If you really want to be freaked out read Brave New world Revisted which was written in 1958 that will rock your world.Alot of what Huxley has to say is frightingly true about our society.Just think aobut Facebook and Twitter and even this site and how it is used to distract us and control us.
There are alot of parallels with Brave New world and today.
If Aldous HUxley were alive today he would horrifed at how Computers LOL and other such technologies have in a sense enslaved us.Ask yourself is it possible that I do not need the internet.?
: all of what he is sayiing is becoming a scary reality.
Huxley used drugs in his book as the means for a police state to control people and keep them semi-conscious and managable. Orwell used fear cognitive dissonance and intimidation in his book "1984" to keep people semi-conscious and manageable.
When you think about it, BOTH techniques are used today by modern govenments. Prescription drugs and police state tactics are the weapons of choice for those governments who want to subjugate us and render us powerless.
I'm certain that today's politicians are well aware of "soma" and "Big Brother" and have learned from those two men while refnining those techniques used in those books all the time.
Farkel
I agree Farkel,think about antidepressants are easily prescribed and of course you have politically correct speech to worry about.I could really relate to the character John trying to awaken the masses and their are drugged out.People today just do not care and many do in fact enjoy their slavery.I mean look Jersey Shore, reality Tv and endless tv ads and a whole host of other things.It is like the movie NetWork quote "I'm as mad as h*ll and I am not going to take it any more.
I remember seeing a made for tv movie version of Brave New World in 1980. A fantastic adaptation. Available on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8CkUMGOhM
Villabolo
That speech at Berekly in 1962 was distrubing
Here is a video I like
One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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