Brave New World

To maintain the World State's Command Economy for the indefinite future, all citizens are conditioned from birth to value consumption with such platitudes as "ending is better than mending," i.e., buy a new item instead of fixing the old one, because constant consumption, and near-universal employment to meet society's material demands, is the bedrock of economic and social stability for the World State. Beyond providing social engagement and distraction in the material realm of work or play, the need for transcendence, solitude and spiritual communion is addressed with the ubiquitous availability and universally endorsed consumption of the drug soma. Soma is an allusion to a mythical drink of the same name consumed by ancient Indo-Aryans. In the book, soma is a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free "holidays". It was developed by the World State to provide these inner-directed personal experiences within a socially managed context of State-run 'religious' organizations; social clubs. The hypnopaedically inculcated affinity for the State-produced drug, as a self-medicating comfort mechanism in the face of stress or discomfort, thereby eliminates the need for religion or other personal allegiances outside or beyond the World State.

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This is a far darker work than I first thought and it was written by someone that was arguably part of the English elite that ruled the bulk of the world (with their cousins and/or pawns ruling the rest).

This is not an analysis of socialism/communism per say, but a quick history and future of the human race. Let me explain...

Kipling\'s narrator looks over his various incarnations over the history of humanity, each subservient to a economic system. All governments and civilizations revolve around an economic system, and I mean economics in the broadest sense of the word (population control, social management of resources, religion organizations, and even war are economics or economic factors if viewed objectively). But the \"Gods of the Copybook Headings\" outlast them all.

But who or what are \"The Gods of the Copybook Headings\"? Copybooks were used in Kipling\'s time by school children to learn penmanship by copying sayings and proverbs (truisms and other tips for being a good citizen). The \"secondary\" purpose of the copybooks was what Kipling was referring to in the context of this poem. Repetition is a powerful tool for learning, or more properly put, conditioning (Pavlovian Style). Through repetition we can absorb concepts or behaviors, making them reflexive and automatic. Learning through repetition is meant to BYPASS CONSCIOUS THOUGHT, it builds reflexive reactions not responses born of critical analysis of the stimulus. Aldous Huxley who paid homage to both Shakespeare and Kipling in the title of his book, \"Brave New World\", explained how sleep-learning had proved useless for teaching new skills requiring conscious thought, but was quite useful to inject a sort of cultural-conditioning through \"osmosis\". Putting thought-terminating cliches, slogans, and twisted little maxims directly into the sub-conscious. This is an extreme example, but there are more subtle examples of cultural conditioning and predictive programming all around us (if you choose to look).

\"The Gods of the Copybook Headings\" are the ones that hand down the cultural conditioning that gives us our collective subjective reality. They are the masters of mass psychology that play the peoples of the world like a fiddle and have grown unimaginably rich in the process. The duty of guiding the sheep is passed from one generation to the next, from \"Good Shepard\" to \"Good Shepard\". They are the ones that pay squads of \"Think-Tanks\" to predict the future path of humanity, for as the all-too-true saying goes \"Culture is handed down from above\".

Why do you think that it has been declassified that the CIA funded Gloria Steinem and the Women\'s Liberation Movement?

Why do you think that limousines were spotted dumping garbage bags full of Acid to college campuses and other things that started the Hippy Craze and the New Age Movement?

Why do you think the Warren Commission was headed by a Wall Street Banker? Are the heads of the country\'s largest banks qualified to investigate the assassination of a president?

Why are we force fed facts in school through rote memorization instead of learning to observe our world with a critical eye?

The plan is hundreds, if not thousands, of years old... We live in a Matrix, an cultural illusion that is what Plato was really talking about in his parable of \"The Cave\".

Read through the poem again, and imagine the world Aldous Huxley told us about...

The \"Brave New World\" is at x

| Posted on 2010-09-14 | by a guest

Gods of the Copybook Heading by Rudyard Kipling:

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