The far-sighted visions of Aldous Huxley had planned everything already 70 years ago, when in his science fiction, New World, (1932) stated:
"L utopias and now seems much more feasible than previously thought at one time, we are now facing a crucial issue: how to prevent their implementation since because the price they have is turning into more slavery and loss of strength and energy for future generations. "
In Huxley's novel, the sensitivity and consciousness of people is counteracted by the mirage of satisfaction of desires in a very short time. Everything is made with a soft pressure, by a totalitarian regime of extremely conformist. The approval of human beings is obtained in the first place, thanks to the genetic manipulation of children raised in a bottle, and then, through the deprivation of intimacy in every way, from family, to sexual and sentimental, and in its place takes hold of a life lightness, recklessness and promiscuity.
A little 'as it happens to Pinocchio in Toyland, when life is reduced to a series of hobbies to make, you're done, and entertainment rises to the level of absolute good for because you escape the tension and pain of those responsibilities that are necessary for the maturation of values \u200b\u200band more lasting satisfaction.
The average man de New World, want and is given the total absence of pain and anxiety, just in case something goes wrong you can always resort to Soma, a kind of opiate created for even cancel the slightest semblance of consciousness, and any disorder related to it.
In The New World by Huxley, people are conditioned even before birth and their life is organized so that every desire is satisfied in no time. Even our new world is designed in such a way as to avoid moments of pause and reflection. The race, the speed, the early achievement of objectives easy to obtain, are the qualities most in vogue, now everything is subject to rapid growth, including the development of children. However
Nature has not ceased to have its time and its rhythms, the tendency to ignore this basic reality is an attitude that keeps us, paradoxically, in a state of childishness, and so it spreads like wildfire, the tendency to explode in desperate hysteria, when you can not get everything right away and get even with a simple clik .. The former function
patiently paid by adults to teach children the art of holding their frustrations, in pursuit of meaningful goals, which bring deeper satisfaction, is a sore point delll'attuale education system.
this thankless job, takes too long, too much commitment and dedication because few people recognize that the ability to hold and feel the frustration is a crucial year for achieving awareness of our emotions, to create a body / container growing flexible and functional it is capable of taking the waves of life without shattering the first storm.
In The New World in the name of community, identity and stability are banned art and science, the books written before the advent of Ford, (the year begins this new civilization) go to the stake and the same applies to the old philosophies and religions that could affect the balance of political and social system based on type of individuals, the rigid division of castes, and the complete root canal treatment of the body and nature.
Huxley's book also highlights the risks associated with the excessive power of the media openly that they use the new plutocrats to manipulate effectively and deep needs and responses of the population., And in this regard, we note that the provision of mass played a crucial role in the escalation of National Socialism.
According to the prophecies of Huxley the uniqueness of man is destined to die under the pressure of a system that flattens the sensitivity intelligence, in exchange for false promises of happiness, and superficial pleasures, especially of fast fulfillment.
The same realization of a utopia / dystopia , the find in another literary work written in 1949, George Orwel l. They are: " 1984" , another visionary and prophetic work.
In Orwell's novel as opposed to what happens in "The New World, a brutal totalitarian system is able to control people first reduced to slavery, and then kept in a state of chronic pain and deprivation, through its control constant eye of the Great Brother.
Both cultures lead to a flattening of the personality and knowledge, but as Orwell feared that books and culture were banned, but Huxley was sure there would be no more eager to read them.
Orwell feared those who would be deprived of information, Huxley, but the feared flood of information that eventually plunges people into a catatonic state.
Orwell was convinced that our civilization would have been a slave, as in Huxley's novel, people are happy to be oppressed and loves without reservation technology that frees the fatigue of thinking, unfortunately they are worthy members of a culture novels of peasants and superficial, full of feelings and only child.
Over the past decades we have seen both realized the visions and the shaping of these utopias / dystopias, is proposed by Huxley, Orwell because, at this point we can do is observe what and how many ways out there still remain, What will give us the strength to resist these mechanisms of oppression, and alienation towards' s uniqueness of the individual and his natural way of being.
What will help this humanitarian Bonzai yet to sink deep roots to recover the wisdom of his ancestors, to find itself strong enough to reach out with strength towards the future in order to achieve that sense of wholeness and integrity to which all life on every face of this planet, tends always beyond any possible bias?
Antoine Duhamel Iurilli
work Iurilli A. Duhamel, Intimacy , 2009
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