Huxley’s Brave New World Nightmare is Becoming a Geopolitical Reality
SputnikNews.com
03.05.2016
The terrifying dystopian vision described by science fiction writer Aldous Huxley is not a description of the totalitarian states of the 20th century, but a creeping reflection of today’s reality, says Russian journalist Konstantin Syomin.
Last week, visiting a technology fair in Hanover, as part of his trip to Germany, President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on ‘virtual reality’ glasses. The president reacted to the technology, quipping that “it’s a brave new world!”
”It’s hard to find a more appropriate analogy,” Syomin said, recalling the Aldous Huxley novel of the same name published between the first and second world wars.
“Huxley described a future in which the world was run by a global government. In this world the only religion was consumption, machines do the majority of the work, and people, sorted by castes and by social position, remain in a state of eternal euphoria, thanks to propaganda and hallucinogenic drugs.”
In its own time,” the journalist recalled, “Huxley’s writings, just like those of George Orwell, another famous warrior against utopias, were widely used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union. It was the USSR, it was said, that dreamed of a world government, the unification of humanity, and the building of heaven on earth. The Soviet vision was branded and ridiculed, compared either to the Gulag Archipelago, or to an ‘Animal Farm’.”
But it’s today, Syomin notes, “25 years after the destruction of the Soviet ‘animal farm’, that it’s becoming more and more difficult to perish the thought that the prophecies of Orwell and the narcotic-laden tales of Huxley” are actually slowly becoming a description of our time.
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