Brave New World - The Science of Mind Control

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In Brave New World, advances in psychology made it possible for the ruling authorities to use mind control. 100 years after Huxley wrote his dystopian novel, has this type of conditioning left the realm of fiction and entered reality? The art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science, Huxley said in 1958. In 1953, British philosopher Bertrand Russell explained that advances in physiology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries.

In his 1958 book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the following: “If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social engineers — and the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific […]

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