Modern Mindcontrol

Presented will be posts and quotes on the increasing efforts of the ruling cliques to enforce mindcontrol on the populace.

Aldous Huxley:
“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.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963, A famous author and philosopher, best known for his novel Brave New World)

— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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@ColinMonaghan6
Media theorist Neil Postman compared Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it he says Orwell predicts a future where people are controlled through pain, censorship, surveillance, and state violence; whereas Huxley predicts a world where people are controlled through pleasure, distraction, consumerism, and endless entertainment.

Sadly, it looks like the-powers-that-be plan a nasty mixture of both; the worst of both worlds.

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@xirtman
What explains Huxley’s prescience is that he was aspie: despite being part of elite circles, he stood apart and criticized their plans. He wasn’t fooled by slogans and saw the underlying pattern, performing an autistic systems-analysis on mass psychology and elite pernicious behavior.
(PDF) Aldous Huxley was on the autism spectrum

War propaganda used in peacetime to manipulate the opinion of the masses - this is one of the programmatic purposes of contemporary international organizations:

Quote by Julian Sorel Huxley
“Progress is not automatic or inevitable but depends on human choice and effort of will. Taking the techniques of persuasion and information and true propaganda that we have learnt to apply as a nation at war, and deliberately combining them with the international tasks of peace, if necessary using them, as Lenin foresaw, to overcome the resistance of millions towards desirable of change.” Julian Sorel Huxley (1887-1975, A prominent evolutionary biologist, humanist, and the first director of UNESCO)