{"id":2258520,"date":"2024-06-03T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aldous-huxleys-predictions-have-come-true\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:04:35","slug":"aldous-huxleys-predictions-have-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aldous-huxleys-predictions-have-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldous Huxley&#8217;s foresight realized"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faldous-huxleys-predictions-have-come-true%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2258520&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The passage discusses President Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s actions to secure democracy in 1917, Aldous Huxley&#8217;s critique of democratic theology leading\u2062 to totalitarianism, and the concept of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-ag-barr-create-durham-special-counsel-to-prevent-president-trump-from-releasing-information-related-to-crossfire-hurricane\/\" title=\"Did AG Barr Create Durham Special Counsel to Prevent President Trump from Releasing Information Related to Crossfire Hurricane?\">deep state<\/a> shaping public perception. It addresses modern challenges to democracy and the unexpected rise and\u2062 fall of Donald Trump, reflecting\u200d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-professor-forced-to-undergo-training-for-referencing-tupac-album-with-racial-slur\/\" title=\"Tennessee Professor Forced To Undergo Training For Referencing Tupac Album With Racial Slur\">power dynamics<\/a> and societal shifts. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-marriage-bonus\/\" title=\"The Benefits of Marriage\">passage delves<\/a> into President Woodrow \u200bWilson&#8217;s efforts to uphold democracy in 1917, Aldous Huxley&#8217;s criticism of democratic theology \u2062resulting in totalitarianism, and the\u2064 influence of the deep state \u200don public opinion. It explores contemporary democratic hurdles \u200dand\u200c analyzes the unpredictable \u200dascent and decline \u2063of Donald Trump, \u200boffering insights into power structures and societal transformations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe world must be made safe for democracy,\u201d President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/woodrow-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Woodrow Wilson<\/a> declared in his 1917 war message to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/woodrow-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To engineer support for the cause, he proceeded to shut down civil liberties, create a national propaganda machine, and set the modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bureaucracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>administrative state<\/a> in motion. In the name of democracy, he instituted compulsory conscription and jailed \u201cdisloyal\u201d adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>A generation later, <em>Brave New World<\/em> author Aldous Huxley scornfully observed that a holy impulse had turned democracy into a \u201cuniversally and absolutely true theology, which it is all humanity\u2019s highest duty to put into practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huxley\u2019s theological imperative is now in its terminal, flamboyant state. It comes to life, Elmer Gantry-style, on MSNBC, where all things Trump-related and Republican are a threat to representative government and the great chain of being.<\/p>\n<p>The Left talks of \u201cour democracy\u201d but seeks to advance a coercive regime hostile to traditional due process, religion, family, and merit. Uncontested power is its evident aim, and slandering and ruining adversaries along the way is only a means to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Huxley thought that democratic theology was a fraud. He warned of hidden government and interlocking networks (the federal complex we now call the deep state) able to shape and defy popular will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature,\u201d Huxley predicted. \u201cThe quaint old forms \u2014 elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest \u2014 will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As democracy withered, the changes would be almost imperceptible, Huxley believed: \u201cAll the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial,\u201d he concluded. \u201cMeanwhile 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deep state is not a conspiracy but a consortium of shared statist assumptions. It includes most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-ready-to-remove-trump-policy-on-firing-federal-workers\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Ready To Remove Trump Policy On Firing Federal Workers\">federal civil service<\/a> and its subsidiaries, the military and national security apparatus, banks and multinational corporations, public schools and research universities, and, above all, the electronic ether and search engines that make mind manipulation and thought manufacture possible.<\/p>\n<p>Aggressive coalitions active in government, private enterprise, and education claim that any performance results that contradict pure equality are the outcome of unfair discrimination based on race, gender, religion, origin, disability, or perhaps mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Repairing these injustices supplants freedom and equal opportunity as an essential public objective. Any deviations are ipso facto deplorable, including censure of nonbinary sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> was the unexpected event, the ultimate, unwelcome black swan usurping established power. Two years ago, the former president looked like a sore loser and has-been, a shadow of Virginia\u2019s Gov. Glenn Youngkin or Florida\u2019s Gov. Ron DeSantis. Thanks to malicious prosecutions, serial race-baiting, and the spectacular incompetency of the White House, he recently looked unstoppable. Now 34 felony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3023600\/three-things-know-what-happens-next-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>convictions<\/a> and three pending criminal trials obstruct a steady march toward the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The radical Left and its allies insist Trump will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3025431\/trump-mocks-biden-strategy-threat-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>finish off democracy<\/a> and the American nation. \u201cI think it would be the end of the republic,\u201d Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz has declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most immediate concern of Trump returning to the presidency is it would provide the greatest domestic terrorist threat of our time \u2014 violent white supremacist organizations \u2014 the ability to rebuild and spread and engage in even more violence and terror,\u201d anti-white zealot Ibram X. Kendi said shortly before news of gross grant mismanagement dimmed his luster.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between now and November, democracy\u2019s theologians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3024838\/alvin-bragg-intentions-spotlight-trump-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>intend<\/a> to present the public with a morality play of good and evil. But the ol\u2019 time religion is not working. The show trials of 2024 and hush money verdict confirm popular suspicion of stop-at-nothing partisanship and news management. A large number of people remain attached to fair play.<\/p>\n<p>The deep state\u2019s clerics intend to render convicted-on-34-counts Trump radioactive and unelectable. In their ruthless pursuit of power, they might end up doing the reverse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gilbert T.\u00a0Sewall\u00a0is a co-author of <\/em>After Hiroshima: The United States Since 1945<em> and the editor of <\/em>The Eighties: A Reader.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1917 war message to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson emphasized the need to safeguard democracy. To rally support, he curtailed civil liberties, established a national propaganda system, and laid the groundwork for the modern administrative state. 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