Author Paul Gosselin discusses his book Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West. Vol. 1

Author Paul Gosselin discusses his book Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West. Vol. 1

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Aldous Huxley’s “prophecy”...

Under the relentless thrust of accelerating overpopulation and increasing overorganization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms — elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest — will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial — but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit." (pp. 393-394)

HUXLEY, Aldous (1958/2007) Brave New World Revisited. Vintage Canada xvi - 407 p.
http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/


Interviewed in 1940 Einstein observed (Anonymous 1940):

Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks.… Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly. (p. 38)

Anonymous (1940) German Martyrs. pp. 38-41 Time magazine 23 Dec., vol. 36 n° 26