Freedom and individualism are
willingly exchanged for sensory pleasure and endless consumption.
Chapter 1. Over-population
- the completely organized
society
- the abolition of free will
- the scientific caste system
- the servitude made acceptable
by regular doses of chemically induced happiness
- the orthodoxies drummed in by
nightly courses of sleep-teaching
- the nightmare of too much
order
- prophecies made in 1931
- George Orwell’s 1984 was a
magnified projection into the future of a present that contained Stalinism and
an immediate past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism.
- animal behaviour – control
through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long
run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards
- 1984 – punishment and fear of
punishment
- Brave New World – mild
punishment, systematic reinforcement of desirable behavior, many kinds of
non-violent manipulation, genetic standardization
- representatives of commercial
and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for
manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of
the masses
- human numbers are now
increasing more rapidly than at any time in the history of the species
- in the Brave New World, the
problem of human numbers in their relation to natural resources had been
solved.
- The problem of rapidly
increasing numbers in relation with natural resources is the central problem of
the mankind.
- the Age of Over-population
- there is a close correlation
between too many people, too rapidly multiplying, and the formulation of
authoritarian philosophies, the rise of totalitarian systems of government
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