Huxley Warned Us: Part 2

Second in the series; to be read in conjunction with Phaedrus' Preamble of Part 1 published here on February 13.

Aldous Huxley:

"...Meanwhile impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interests of SOME MINORITY [my emphasis] the thoughts and feelings of the masses. The techniques of manipulation will be discussed in later chapters.

"For the moment let us confine our attentions to those impersonal forces which are now making the world so extremely unsafe for democracy, so very inhospitable to individual freedom. What are these forces? And why has the nightmare which I had projected into the [26th century], made so swift an advance in our direction? The answer to these questions must begin where the life of even the most highly civilized society has its beginnings - on the level of biology.

"On the first Christmas Day the population of our planet was about two hundred and fifty millions - less than half the population of modern China. Sixteen centuries later, when the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock, human numbers had climbed to a little more than five hundred millions. By the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, world population had passed the seven hundred million mark. In 1931, when I was writing Brave New World, it stood at just under two billions. Today, only twenty-seven years later, there are two thousand eight hundred million of us. And tomorrow – what?"


Huxley's "tomorrow" is of course our today. And the current population of the world is (if I recall correctly) approximately six-and-a-half BILLION! In his sequel to Brave New World, Huxley goes on to describe how better and better drug treatments and cleaner water supplies and more effective disinfectants will only exacerbate the problem of gross human overpopulation (we'll see in detail what he has to say about this later). So when we read the widely-circulated reports about the agents of the New World Order planning to wipe out over 4 billion of us, perhaps we can see that there's some method in the madness, even though some of us reading these lines may be among the masses to be eliminated. Quite what the selection criteria for this future Cull comprise one can only speculate, as myself and others have done elsewhere.

However the fact remains that the world IS grossly overpopulated and far more precariously so now than when the aging Huxley observed it in 1958. In fact we are just starting to see now the onset of widespread food shortages he predicted elsewhere in BNWR. This has shown up in recent steeply rising food prices world-wide, and shortages of basic staples in places such as Africa and the far east. The author is also quite correct to refer to these mysterious forces as "impersonal" - for those behind them care not one jot about you or I, but only their own survival and enrichment. As we saw in Part 1, we have to wake up to the fact that our so-called 'leaders' are in fact our REAL enemies, and far more dangerous than any creation from their feverish collective imagination that they might, from time to time, conjure up to threaten us with.

Finally, note Huxley's supposed use of the term "some minority" in the first paragraph. I think we can all guess to whom he is referring here and I believe it is unlikely (having read much of the man) that he was quite so diplomatic in this original manuscript. However, the text we are studying here is sourced from the Random House edition of BNWR - and like most other publishing houses, Random House is totally owned and controlled by the Jews. I believe therefore that the temptation to tone down the original text was probably too much for them. Heaven knows how many other original manuscripts have been given the same treatment in the course of history in order to stifle the warnings they contain.