Awakening Humanity to it’s potential or Black Pilling
Chris Youngblood August 21, 2023
Most of you who have come to my blog are aware of Aldous Huxley and his important work, “Brave New World.” However, are you aware of the non fiction book he penned in 1958, 26 years after Brave New World, entitled, “Brave New World Revisited?” Revisited was a look back at his 1932 seminal book and how many of the ideologies and tactics he spoke of in Brave New World were starting to manifest. Television had come into fruition. Not everyone had a television at that point, but most people had at least one. Aldous uses this opportunity to critique various propaganda techniques via television and this technical medium is very prominent in his book.
I will be going over some of the quotes and what he was trying to get across in this book but first I’d like to do a thought experiment and propose that possibly Aldous at this point in his life, was warning us, maybe cajoling us to become awake to how we were being steered and controlled. Maybe you are thinking that’s crazy. Aldous came from an elite family, his grandfather T. H. Huxley was a rampant eugenicist, nicknamed Darwin’s Bulldog. His brother, Julian, was not only the president of the British Eugenics Society at one point, but also was the Director General of UNESCO. As Director General of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Julian wrote UNESCO’S Purpose and Philosophy, which was essentially its manifesto. This manifesto was no less than a layout of how to control and propagandize masses of people into world government. Additionally, Julian discusses how to make Eugenics more palatable or thinkable in the mass mind. Julian Huxley also was the first person to use the word Transhumanism in his 1957 book New Bottles for New Wine. On page 17 he wrote, “Whether he (man) wants to or not, whether he is conscious of what he is doing or not, he is in point of fact determining the future direction of evolution on this earth. The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself – not just sporadically, …. but in its entirety. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself.”
Do the sins of the father and brother apply to Aldous? Let’s take a look, be honest with ourselves and as all conscious thinkers should do, apply rationality and key into nuances. One thing I would like to point out before going further is that the Huxley’s were NOT an elite family by any stretch of the imagination. In the rings of power, so eloquently described by Carol Quigley in his classic, “The Anglo American Establishment”, the Huxley family was in the Association of Helpers, NOT the Society of Elect (aka the Inner Circle). They, like HG Wells and Bertrand Russel, were the scientists and propagandists of their day that helped propel the Bloodline families control of the masses. The Bloodline families and bankers need social engineers to study and refine how to control and steer the sheep. Wells, Russel and Julian definitely did this in spades but also people like Norbert Weiner studying the science of cybernetics. It is no coincidence that the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics that were held from 1946 – 1953 were sponsored by elite families. Someone like Yuval Harari serves this purpose today. If you haven’t listened to this “human” please do so. Throw one of his talks on at the World Economic Forum and instead of knowing he is the “philosopher” behind Klaus Schwab, close your eyes and pretend he is a psychopath speaking from a room at a mental health facility. The British noble gentleness of lightheartedly charming the plebs into their own slavery is completely lost on old Yuval.
Aldous, however, chose a different path. He was not on a prestigious panel or part of a group like the X Club (T.H.) and British Eugenics Society (Julian). He simply wrote about what he saw the world coming to. He definitely had an inside view and extrapolated that view into the future; the modus operandi of any good science fiction writer.
Toward the end of his life, Aldous started looking into religious and spiritual practices. He also experimented with psychedelics. Could this new path have opened him up to a more hopeful view of humanity, seeing its weaknesses but realizing the strengths dormant? Since he was not a part of the same organizations his brother was, did he have the freedom to write about man’s perils, his passions that weakened him and made him more malleable to be controlled? Aldous knew the machinations behind the scenes and what was coming due to his status and connections within the Royal Society. He wrote Brave New World Revisited five years before his death. Let’s take a look first at some of his words prior to the publishing of Brave New World and shortly after. Maybe from viewing his evolution in thought we can start to see patterns in his thinking or at least how he delivers the information.
In 1927 “The Future of the Past,” Huxley discusses a scientific elite and it’s use of eugenic principles when he states, “In the Future that we envisage, eugenics will be practiced in order to improve the human breed. Society will be organized as a hierarchy of mental quality and the form of government will be aristocratic in the literal sense of the word – that is to say the best will rule… Our children may look forward to the establishment of a new caste system based on differences in natural ability.”
This reminds one of the Eugenic caste system in Brave New World consisting of the Semi – Moron Epsilons, Deltas, Alphas etc. Aldous at this point viewed man in terms of the “might makes right” social darwinism propagated by his grandfather and Francis Galton (half cousin of Charles Darwin). Francis Galton also not only believed in Eugenics and gave rise to Eugenics studies within Britain, but he also invented the term “Eugenics” in 1883. Brave New World at its heart, was a combination of these two dogmas with a technocratic mode of running this “utopia.”
In a promotional release for Brave New World, titled, “Science and Civilization,” Huxley states, “stupid people are probably the state’s least troublesome subjects, and a society composed in the main of stupid people is more likely stable than one with a high proportion of intelligent people. The economist – ruler would therefore be tempted to use the knowledge of genetics not for eugenic but dysgenic purposes – for the deliberate lowering of the average mental standard.”
One way this is carried out in the novel Brave New World is the World State brainwashing centers, a Pavlovian conditioning nightmare. Among the many horrific things done there to one’s free will is hynopaedia, a subliminal messaging technique to teach different genetic castes not to intermix. Now this reminds me personally of Dr. Ewan Cameron’s technique he practiced on patients called “psychic driving.” Dr. Ewan Cameron practiced this horror upon patients at Allan Memorial Hospital, the psychiatric facility at McGill University. Funding to set up this facility had come from the Rockefeller Foundation. After depatterning patients minds and giving them amnesia, the CIA sent the psychiatrist research money to take the treatment beyond this point. This funding from the Agency came via a conduit called the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology. They wanted to know if once Cameron had produced the blank mind, he could then program new patterns of behavior. This is where “psychic driving” came in. Cameron would bombard the subject with repeated verbal messages – negative ones to get rid of unwanted behavior and then positive to condition in desired personality traits. This was done in the late 1950s under the MK Ultra project. Remember, Brave New World was published in 1932. Foreshadowing or knowledge of what’s to come? Either way, Aldous did not seem to care whether this was morally correct or not. He seemed very matter of fact about it, frankly. Maybe when you are surrounded by family and friends who view man as an animal to be controlled it desensitizes you.
Let’s start now by examining Brave New World Revisited. There’s a bait and switch move that Aldous does at the start of the book and then comes back towards the end. This has to do with his belief that population is the problem and there are too many people on the planet. This honestly did not surprise me when I first read the book. His grandfather, T.H., was influenced by Darwin who was influenced by Thomas Malthus. Thomas Malthus wrote “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” in 1798 and believed that overpopulation was a problem. This is where the terms “Malthusianism” or describing someone as a “Malthusianist” comes from.
But what Aldous does is he uses this overpopulation thesis to explain away why a totalitarian dictatorship is needed. If man were to regulate himself and have more temperance in his procreation, there would be no need for a totalitarian dictatorship and a need to psychologically manipulate a human who is so beastly and ignorant to not understand how he is hurting the earth by overpopulating it.
“Whenever the economic life of a nation becomes precarious, the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare. It must work out elaborate plans for dealing with a critical situation; it must impose ever greater restrictions upon the activities of its subjects; if worsening economic conditions result in political unrest, or open rebellion, the central government must intervene to preserve public order and it’s own authority. More and more power is thus concentrated in the hands of the executives and their bureaucratic managers….How will this development affect the over – populated, but highly industrialized and still democratic countries of Europe? If the newly formed dictatorships were hostile to them, and if the normal flow of raw materials from the underdeveloped countries were deliberately interrupted, the nations of the West would find themselves in a very bad way indeed.”
-Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited page 10 – 11
“The shortest and broadest road to the nightmare of Brave New World leads, as I have pointed out, through over – population and the accelerating increase of human numbers… with most of humanity facing the choice between anarchy and totalitarian control.”
-Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited page 17
This choice between anarchy and technocracy is a obvious false dichotomy. But is Huxley tricking us or did he really believe this? I’ll tackle this at the end.
Now I want to focus on where Huxley roots for the underclass, the normal person. He does seem to champion individuality and the fact that man was built for more than just to work for someone else and be stimulated by his base desires. He was meant to be creative. On page 18 he states, “The Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country’s working force in it’s factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody.”
On page 19 he goes on, “But societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life. How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years?”
Page 20 he says, “Their (humanity) perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought to not be adjusted, still cherish the ‘illusion of individuality,’ but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. Man is not made to be an automation, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed.”
Huxley is 100% correct here. In the 50s a man would work at his profession, read the newspaper, drink and have leisure. Oh yes, and the wonderful new invention of television. He could be an automaton for 8 hours a day, then consume the rest. Now, with the advent of the internet, the dopamine hits of social media have amplified the automation of many people walking around like NPCs. Not only does this create fertile ground for suggestibility because critical thinking has shut down, but it also outsources thinking to the “experts” on the TV, while leaving oneself barren of divine creative thought patterns. The well is dried up. The elixir or philosophers stone is out of reach.
An interesting topic Huxley covers is the new social ethic of that time. I always like to find patterns in the past that correspond to what is going on in the present. The social engineers do not change their game plan or their methods really. If the good is creative (like the divine intelligence that created the universe), then its inverse is not creative. Some of the key words in the Social Ethic were “adjustment,” “adaptation,” “socially oriented behavior,” “belongingness,” “team work,” “group dynamics.” Sure sounds like “agile,” “equity,” “social credit,” “environmental, social and corporate governance,” to me.
Huxley addresses the problem of World Controllers in his novel, which I would call social engineers today. In Revisited he asks “Who will mount guard over our guardians, who will engineer the engineers? Reminds me of James Corbett’s Who will fact check the fact checkers.
“In the democratic West there is economic censorship and the media of mass communication are controlled by members of the Power Elite. Censorship by rising costs and the concentration of communication power in the hands of a few big concerns is less objectionable than State ownership and government propaganda; but certainly it is not something of which a Jeffersonian democrat could possibly approve.”
-Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited page 34
“A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”
-Alous Huxley Brave New World Revisited page 36
“In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization – the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in their interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the non stop distractions…”
-Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited page 36
Think about the last few years and the suppression of true media, the alternative media. The distractions that lead to information overload. The stifling of truth and insertion of lies. Reminds me of Cameron and his “psychic driving.” Also what Minister of Nazi Propaganda Joseph Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Hell, I’ll even throw in former President George W. Bush in Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 when he said, “See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
Throughout the book Huxley breaks down how the masses are culled and mentally manipulated through media. The interesting correlation between Pavlov’s conditioning and advertising is explored. Better to advertise at night because fatigue increases suggestibility. He also talks about pharmacological drugs like the fictitious Soma in Brave New World. Think about how many people are on drugs for depression, alcohol abuse and “man’s holiday from himself.” However, what I gather from him is not a demoralizing stance where he laughs at the plebs while admiring the engineers, like Bernays does in Propaganda. It seems like he is warning about what is going on. Chapter names are “Brainwashing,” “Chemical Persuasion,” “Subconscious Persuasion.” He ends the book with the last two chapters pointing towards hope and solutions with “Education for Freedom,” and “What Can Be Done.”
So was Huxley on our side or the controllers? We may never know his intentions with Brave New World Revisited. Four years after publishing this book, he lectured at Berkley University to students about technocracy and what would happen in the future. Some people view it as black pill others as a warning. Whatever camp you fall in, the words and warnings are no less grave and need to be heeded. The lecture can be found here.
Huxley does, to his credit, warn us against complacency and laziness, which would weaken us into docility. Bread and circuses would get us to accept being ruled by oligarchs and experts, essentially loving our servitude because we are being supplied with consumerism and propaganda, not paying attention to how we are being controlled. My critique though is how he uses birth and population control as a form of responsible freedom hinting in a sly way that experts won’t need to control us if we take control of ourselves. He floats a little truth but sullies it with population control, although he is not as heavy handed as HG Wells, Bertrand Russel, or George Bernard Shaw (who said out loud that people should appear before a tribunal every seven years and give evidence to their existence and if the tribunal believes they are of no value to society, they should be terminated, but OH, HE WAS A GREAT PLAYWRIGHT).
Some may think the population control threat was a way to get people to capitulate to this so there wouldn’t be totalitarian control. I don’t buy it though. I think Aldous was a true believer in overpopulation albeit misguided. He could not shake that branch from his family tree.
Maybe Huxley changed his outlook later on before he died on November 22, 1963 (same day as Kennedy assassination and death of C.S. Lewis, strangely). Perhaps he became sick of his family’s grotesque philosophy and wanted to give mankind a fighting chance to realize his place among the cosmos. But at the same time, maybe he understood, like all who understand Natural Law, that the universe reflects back to man what man is in the aggregate. If man is immoral and beastly, and allows himself to be ruled by lower base passions and selfishness and harm of others, the law of the universe will reflect that back. If man is moral, caring and wants to raise others up, the universe will reflect that back. Man is the microcosm. I believe Huxley understood this. Maybe he decided to give this information freely and let people either discard or act upon it. Maybe it was to demoralize. Either way, it is up to us to pass on his words. If you have a friend who is on the cusp of diving into the conspiratorial view of history, maybe Aldous Huxley wouldn’t be a bad place to start.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (Perennial Classics, 1958).
- Aldous Huxley, “The Future of the Past,” Aldous Huxley: Complete Essays (Volume II 1926 – 1929).
- John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control ( W.W. Norton & Company, 1979).
- Edwin Black, War Agains the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (Dialog Press, 2003).