#TechnocracySeries –Episode 8
ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ
THE FABIAN SOCIETY
Orwell and Huxley weren't prophets; they were scribes.
Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's French teacher. Huxley knew too much. He came from the British intellectual aristocracy.
His grandfather was T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog"), and his brother, Julian Huxley, was a prominent evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and the first director-general of UNESCO.
Julian did share many goals with the Fabian Society's vision of a scientifically guided society. A British socialist organization founded in London in 1884, which functions as a think tank. The Fabians are a key piece of the Technocracy puzzle. They weren't seeking a violent, Marxist-style revolution, but rather a gradual, slow, and administrative transformation of society.
Aldous didn't need to imagine what a scientific dictatorship would be like; he listened to his brother and colleagues discuss biology, population control, and human standardization as casually as if they were talking about the weather.
Orwell (Eric Blair) defined himself as a democratic socialist.
Shortly before his death, Orwell sent a copy of 1984 to his former teacher. Huxley replied with a famous letter (dated October 21, 1949) that is a gem of political prophecy. Essentially, Huxley told him: "Your book is brilliant, but you're wrong about the method." His argument was: "The boot on the face (your method) is inefficient. In the future, rulers will discover that it's easier to control people through conditioning and pleasure (my method in Brave New World) than through pain."
Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and Orwell's 1984 (1949) share a common theme: technocracy.
We are monitored, as in 1984, but we are willingly distracted, as in Brave New World.
ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ
THE FABIAN SOCIETY
Orwell and Huxley weren't prophets; they were scribes.
Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's French teacher. Huxley knew too much. He came from the British intellectual aristocracy.
His grandfather was T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog"), and his brother, Julian Huxley, was a prominent evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and the first director-general of UNESCO.
Julian did share many goals with the Fabian Society's vision of a scientifically guided society. A British socialist organization founded in London in 1884, which functions as a think tank. The Fabians are a key piece of the Technocracy puzzle. They weren't seeking a violent, Marxist-style revolution, but rather a gradual, slow, and administrative transformation of society.
Aldous didn't need to imagine what a scientific dictatorship would be like; he listened to his brother and colleagues discuss biology, population control, and human standardization as casually as if they were talking about the weather.
Orwell (Eric Blair) defined himself as a democratic socialist.
Shortly before his death, Orwell sent a copy of 1984 to his former teacher. Huxley replied with a famous letter (dated October 21, 1949) that is a gem of political prophecy. Essentially, Huxley told him: "Your book is brilliant, but you're wrong about the method." His argument was: "The boot on the face (your method) is inefficient. In the future, rulers will discover that it's easier to control people through conditioning and pleasure (my method in Brave New World) than through pain."
Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and Orwell's 1984 (1949) share a common theme: technocracy.
We are monitored, as in 1984, but we are willingly distracted, as in Brave New World.