This is now a documentary. Anyone here during COVID-1984? To kill someone with fake happiness is the worst torture. To live a lie is to live in hell. I'm not quite sure what is more frightening: to realize that Huxleys predictions are already b…
This is now a documentary. Anyone here during COVID-1984? To kill someone with fake happiness is the worst torture. To live a lie is to live in hell. I'm not quite sure what is more frightening: to realize that Huxleys predictions are already becoming true or to realize that my perception of the current society is a minority perception. I love how Huxley makes you think which society is actually the crazy one in the end. A choice of free will where there is pain, heartbreak, etc. or a perfect world where everyone gets what they want. A great film.
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell, 1984
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell after reading 1984 in 1949, shortly before Orwell’s death. His conclusion was as follows:
“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare o f a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large-scale biological and atomic war—in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlb1bdU-G7o
