“...Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes about a dystopian society where an oppressive dictatorship had successfully managed to enslave its population to such degree they were forbidden to love anyone else but the government.
He painted an oppressive society where the citizens were utterly prohibited from showing or even feeling any sort of love towards their siblings, parents, friends.
Not even children were conceived out of love.
And to maintain such a state of apathy, the state made sure that every single citizen ingests some type of super-mind-numbing substance called SOMA.
From Thought Police to Feelings Police
Falling in love with a romantic partner was the most policed feeling of all. Not only you weren’t allowed to sleep with the same person twice, but you were obliged to have sex with any person that wants to have sex with you.
Consent was strictly forbidden, because allegedly if you refused sex with someone you could hurt their feelings.
Talk about snowflake society.
Imagine that, you can’t refuse sex with anyone because rejection is now deemed offensive... Instead you should let them rape you, because you know, that's the politically correct thing to do.
Now I know, this sounds absolutely insane. And more importantly, it’s just a fictional piece of literature. But from a historical point of view, this isn’t exactly outside of the realm of probabilities.
The War on Love
Historically, the ruling class have always waged some sort of war on love. After centuries and centuries of existence it’s hard to believe that the sexual revolution only took place a few decades ago.
How many monotheistic religions have we had in this planet? And how many of them forbade people from having sex before marriage?
Even worse, how many of them prohibited people from choosing their own spouse?
I believe the point is made.
And by the way this is without taking in consideration all the polytheistic religions (religions with multiple gods) and cults… Don’t get me started with cults.
This isn’t a coincidence, but rather a personality trait in a certain type of people. Those who should probably get hosted in some psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.
Ironically, they always end up in presidential elections instead.
All things considered, it still sounds implausible that the government will be successful in implementing those intrusive Orwellian policies any time soon.
But then again, people were laughing out about Big Brother for ten years straight. Ridicule, insults and mocking to anyone who dared to question the fact that the government may be spying on us.
And it wasn’t for lack of recent examples, the KGB, the Stasi.. .Etc.
Look at us now, it has become like gravity, spying has become totally acceptable. No one seems to question NSA surveillance anymore.
Just a few years ago, it seemed outrageous to suggest that such thing could be even taking place.
From Big Brother to Big Sis
And that’s the terrifying part, when you see certain universities war on free speech. In Rutgers for example, you’re only allowed to speak when necessary to avoid offending people.
Even crazier is this new nanny-state war on children, where they’re trying to ban kids from having best friends so that other kids without best friends don’t feel offended
Seriously, banning children form having best friends? It kind of creeps you out.
Once I wrote a short comedy about the increasingly creepier nanny-state, one year later we wish it only stopped there.
That was over a year and a half ago, now it seems like these were the good times. But I guess that’s what happens when you live in world where the insane have overrun the asylum, that crazy becomes the new normal.
The Road to Dystopia
You can’t police feelings, you can’t force people to feel the same affection to everyone in the world in the same manner. With some people you have more rapport than others, and that’s totally normal.
And most of all, children are just that: Children. So don’t expect them to be God. You can’t expect them to love all his children and love them equally.
The theory of “Forced Godnessess” coming to a daycare near you.
