What an incredible couple. Reminds me of the story of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, and Sabina encouraging her husband to stand up for Christ even at great cost.
Yeah, in the West, a "new look" totalitarianism has come to power. A totalitarianism that is marketing savvy, more manipulative, more hypocritical, but which ruthlessly crushes dissidents. But it goes without saying that collaborators and the compliant will be left alone... In fact this neototalitarianism appears to be the fulfilment of an old “prophecy” by the UK novelist Aldous Huxley
“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.
Now Aldous Huxley was no idle dreamer. He came from a well-connected British family. For example, his brother Julian Huxley was a founding member of the United Nations organisation, an outspoken Globalist and New World Order propagandist.
Now if this neototalitarianism targets individuals, the same is true for Christian churches in the West. The aim is either to corrupt them ideologically (as the Nazis did to German churches in the 1930s), or to punish them with stifling administrative measures designed to discredit them and erode their influence.
What an incredible couple. Reminds me of the story of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, and Sabina encouraging her husband to stand up for Christ even at great cost.
Sad commentary on our present state of affairs
Yes it is
Yeah, in the West, a "new look" totalitarianism has come to power. A totalitarianism that is marketing savvy, more manipulative, more hypocritical, but which ruthlessly crushes dissidents. But it goes without saying that collaborators and the compliant will be left alone... In fact this neototalitarianism appears to be the fulfilment of an old “prophecy” by the UK novelist Aldous Huxley
“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/
Now Aldous Huxley was no idle dreamer. He came from a well-connected British family. For example, his brother Julian Huxley was a founding member of the United Nations organisation, an outspoken Globalist and New World Order propagandist.
Now if this neototalitarianism targets individuals, the same is true for Christian churches in the West. The aim is either to corrupt them ideologically (as the Nazis did to German churches in the 1930s), or to punish them with stifling administrative measures designed to discredit them and erode their influence.