Commentary
According to Aldous Huxley, the tyrant of the future will use drugs and propaganda to convince the individual to “love his slavery.” In a 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Huxley explained as follows: “You have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do partly by drugs, as I foresaw in ‘Brave New World,’ and partly by these new techniques of propaganda.” Huxley believed that these two weapons would build the tyrant’s dream of an obedient society.
It is Canada’s strange fate that these things, drugs and propaganda, are hot-wire issues in 2023. Today’s drama is so intense that one might ask if Canada is fulfilling Huxley’s haunting prediction….