HUMANS ARRANGED IN A SCIENTIFIC CASTE SYSTEM
"If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent. It's exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time,
but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion, an element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them.
Well, it seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced, is precisely this:
That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy, who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude.
This seems to me the ultimate in malevolent revolutions, shall we say, and this is a problem which has interested me for many years and about which I wrote thirty years ago a fable, The Brave New World [1932],
which is essentially the account of a society making use of all the devices at that time available, and some of the devices which I imagined to be possible making use of them in order to first of all to standardize the population,
to iron inconvenient human differences, to create so to say mass-produced models of human beings arranged in some kind of a scientific caste system.”
Aldous Huxley:
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