(March 20, 1962) - A recorded lecture in which the author of Brave New World discusses using terrorism to create willing slaves out of the population.
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." -- Adolf Hitler
The conditioning of students at Berkeley
http://www.sweetliberty.org/audio/huxley_conditioning.htm
Upon listening to part two of the Huxley presentation, one of our website visitors (http://www.sweetliberty.org/audio/huxley_conditioning.htm) discovered the following conversation approximately thirteen minutes into the clip.
He writes:
"On Tape 2, there arrives the moment when the official hour-long lecture should have come to a close. The assembled students are urged to make their way to their regularly scheduled classes. Those wanting to listen to the close of the question and answer session, are welcomed to remain in place.
If one pays very close attention to the 'side bar' between the fellow-insiders, this comes through loud and clear:
"Aldous, I do hope you're not finding it to be uncomfortably warm in here?"
"Well, it is getting to be a little warm. It seems to be a windowless Hall, isn't it? Is there any means at all of ventilation?"
"It is part of the CONDITIONING PROCESS, actually."
So, here you have it all before you on a silver platter.... much like the severed head of John the Baptist. This audience of students and faculty who IMAGINE that they are being entertained and enriched by the cornucopia of intellectual treats offered up by Aldous ...are themselves actually the VICTIMS of an elaborate, well-defined and highly organized Program-of-Indoctrination into the very 'Brave New World' that has been foreseen by the Elitist speaker whom they are, enthralled, listening to."
— G.W.
If you missed this portion of the second clip, click below.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/audio/hux3.ram
The Ultimate Revolution (Transcript)
March 20, 1962
Berkeley Language Center - Speech Archive SA 0269
audio: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#huxley
source of transcript: http://p197.ezboard.com/faldoushuxleyfrm1.showMessage?topicID=276.topic
Moderator:
{garbled}Aldous Huxley, a renowned Essayist and Novelist who during the spring semester is residing at the university in his capacity of a Ford research professor. Mr Huxley has recently returned from a conference at the Institute for the study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara where the discussion focused on the development of new techniques by which to control and direct human behavior. Traditionally it has been possible to suppress individual freedom through the application of physical coercion through the appeal of ideologies through the manipulation of man's physical and social environment and more recently through the techniques, the cruder techniques of psychological conditioning. The Ultimate Revolution, about which Mr. Huxley will speak today, concerns itself with the development of new behavioral controls, which operate directly on the psycho-physiological organisms of man. That is the capacity to replace external constraint by internal compulsions. As those of us who are familiar with Mr. Huxley's works will know, this is a subject of which he has been concerned for quite a period of time. Mr. Huxley will make a presentation of approximately half an hour followed by some brief discussions and questions by the two panelists sitting to my left, Mrs. Lillian {garbled} and Mr. John Post. Now Mr. Huxley
Huxley:
Thank You.
{Applause}
Uh, First of all, the, I'd like to say, that the conference at Santa Barbara was not directly concerned with the control of the mind. That was a conference, there have been two of them now, at the University of California Medical center in San Francisco, one this year which I didn't attend, and one two years ago where there was a considerable discussion on this subject. At Santa Barbara we were talking about technology in general and the effects it's likely to have on society and the problems related to technological transplanting of technology into underdeveloped countries.
