Huxley Warned Us: Part 13

From Brave New World Revisited, 1958:

"In practice, as recent history has repeatedly shown, the right to vote, by itself, is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore, if you wish to avoid dictatorship by plebiscite, break up modern society's vast, machine-like collectives into self-governing, voluntarily co-operating groups, capable of functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Government. Overpopulation and over-organization have produced the modern metropolis, in which a fully human life of multiple personal relationships has become almost impossible. Therefore, if you wish to avoid the spiritual impoverishment of individuals and whole societies, leave the metropolis and revive the small country community, or alternatively humanize the metropolis by creating within its network of mechanical organizations the urban equivalents of small country communities, in which individuals can meet and co-operate as complete persons, not as the mere embodiments of specialized functions."


Note here that even in the America of the late 1950s, the author was already deeply suspicious of democracy and how it could be subverted by the interests of Big Business. We tend to look back misty-eyed on that seemingly halcyon era from our present standpoint and see it as the golden age of liberty, but it is evident from Huxley's concerns that it was already under threat. My personal belief is that the origins of this erosion of our freedoms had its seeds in our accepting large numbers of Jews fleeing the Nazis from 1930's europe. Something seems to have happened within a few years of the ending of WWII that vastly accelerated the cultural decline that had been simmering away since the 1920s when the numbers of Jews in positions of public influence (Hollywood excepted) was much lower.

The Jews we were foolishly good-hearted enough to welcome to our shores repaid our kindness by proceeding to gnaw away at this once-great country from the inside. They quickly wriggled their way into powerful positions of public influence and seized control of the mass media, and by so doing, the government itself. They enriched themselves at our expense and funneled huge amounts of our tax-dollars to that cancerous, running sore of the Middle East, Israel. Additionally, their appetite for blood had to be satiated by the sacrifice of great numbers of our young people in fighting foreign adventures that were of no benefit to us whatsoever. But with their guile, their determination and their self-belief in their "entitlement" to call all the shots, they somehow got away with it – and still do.

I can almost hear the call of every great civilization in history crying out to America in the late 1930: "Please, please, don't let these Devils in! Afford them no sanctuary! They may look like you and talk like you - they're very good at that - but they're evil! You let them into your great country and within 100 years it'll be nothing but a rotting corpse. These parasites will have eaten away everything you have worked for and totally destroyed your wealth, your way of life and cultural heritage. We beg you from our bitter experience of 3,000 years of dealings with these nomadic parasites: slay them while you still may, for if you fail, then in time they will lay your country waste! Take heed, America! Take heed!"

Pity we couldn't hear them.