We're Living in the Brave New World
As I watched this video, https://youtu.be/3TQZ-2iMUR0 , and listened to Aldous Huxley discuss the different enemies of freedom, it was easy for me to connect his ideas with politics. He presented ideas like overpopulation, communism, over-organization, and gov't (government) intervention. He believes the world will fall under the power of a dictator. He focused on the problems that questioned our survival and freedom-something I'm very interested in. From what I can remember, Huxley claims the problem originated with overpopulation. According to Huxley, from before Christ to the Mayflower, the population has doubled. Since there's a large amount of people, they'll require resources. Resources that can wither or run out. When these resources run out, there will be social unrest which will require gov't intervention. The gov't intervention is what will come before everyone is under totalitarian rule. He even went so far as to claim that communists were going to ...