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THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC DICTATORSHIP GLOBAL THE RISE THE SCIENTIFIC DICTATORSHIP Aldous Huxley's vision of a brave new world has come to pass as increasingly we are at the mercy of elite technocrats and social engineers who are using everything in their power to control the world's populace. e are in the midst of the most explosive development in all of human history. Humanity is experiencing a simultaneously opposing and conflicting geopolitical transition, the likes of which has never before been anticipated or experienced. Historically, the story of humanity has been the struggle between the free-thinking individual and structures of power controlled by elites that seek to dominate land, resources and people. The greatest threat to elites at any time— historically and presently—is an awakened, critically thinking and politically stimulated populace. The greatest triumphs of the human mind—whether in art, science or thought—have arisen out of and challenged great systems of power and control. The greatest of human misery and tragedy has arisen out of the power structures and systems that elites always seek to construct and manage. War, genocide, persecution and human degradation are directly the result of decisions made by those who control the apparatus of power, whether the power manifests itself as intellectual, ecclesiastical, spiritual, militaristic or scientific. The most malevolent and ruthless power is that over the free human mind: if one controls how one thinks, they control the individual itself. The greatest human achievements are where individuals have broken free the shackles that bind the mind and let loose the inherent and undeniable power that lies in each and every individual... What is the "Scientific Dictatorship"? In 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote his dystopian novel Brave New World, in which he looked at the emergence of the scientific dictatorships of the future. In his 1958 essay, "Brave New World Revisited", Huxley explains: "The future dictator's subjects will be painlessly regimented by a corps of highly trained social engineers." He quotes one “advocate of this new science" as saying: "The challenge of social engineering in our time is like the challenge of technical engineering fifty years ago. If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of social engineers." Thus, proclaims Huxley: "The twenty-first century, | suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific caste system and Brave New World.” In 1952, Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, historian, mathematician and social critic, wrote the book The Impact of Science on Society, in which he warned and examined how science, with the technological revolution, was changing and would come to change society: I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology. Mass psychology is, scientifically speaking, not a very advanced study... This study is immensely useful to practical men, whether they wish to become rich or to acquire the government. It is, of course, as a science, founded upon individual psychology, but hitherto it has employed rule-of-thumb methods which were based upon a kind of intuitive © Global Research, Montreal, Canada, 5 July 2010 Web page: www.globalresearch.ca NEXUS ° II by Andrew Gavin Marshall AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com