Dystopian Novels and Reality

Although Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" is the most widely read book in American history behind only the Bible, I wouldn't label it as "dystopian."

A dystopian novel requires a futuristic setting wherein an all-powerful, commanding government lordes over the daily lives of oblivious citizens, even down to the most minute details. Rand's tale of government-caused economic ruin might reflect a fairly immediate future, rather than one far enough away to properly earn this label (it also focuses only on government control of big business and the economy).

George Orwell and Aldous Huxely, then, are perhaps the two most prolific dystopian authors of the 20th century. Their magnum opi, "1984" and "Brave New World" respectively, have been read and printed the world over in dozens of languages. All students and appreciators of freedom have at least heard of them both, if not read and analyzed them as well to the Nth degree.

Both novels fit the description of dystopian literature perfectly, being set in a distant future where the elite submiss the masses, who remain brainwashedly loyal to their oppressors via the effects of constant propagandizement and control efforts - though here is where the novels' natures split.

In Orwell's "1984", control and propaganda are carried out in a punitive way. Citizens are subjected to mass misery in order to maintain their subservience. They are frightened with news of nonexistent foreign "wars" and rampant "disease epidemics". They're spied on via ever-present camera systems. They're given shoddy living spaces with propagandized hopes of minuscule improvements should they remain loyal. Their rulers feed them slop and report lies of food shortages while indulging in delicacies.

It is their rulers efforts at producing misery which keeps them suppressed.

Huxley's "Brave New World" offers a different paradigm of future complete government oppression.

In that novel, citizens all serve assigned roles in society. They are distracted from awareness of their subservient state by pleasurable circumstances, rather than suppressed by a miserable reality.

Daily regimens of "Soma", a euphoria-inducing drug, are required of all. News sources report only positive stories. Public games and vacations are common. Sex-as-therapy is advised for anyone suffering stress, and having plentiful sexual partners is encouraged not only as a cure for ones mental ills but also as a responsibility to your fellow citizen.

Submission-by-happiness is the name of Huxley's game, and although I'm a bigger fan of Orwell's stories, between Huxley and Orwell's predictions of real world elites' strategies of securing rule over the minds of men, surely Huxley got it right...

Because modern America fulfills the vision of Huxley's dystopian future.

Major American news outlets are a joke, bought and paid for. The range of opinion, coverage of major world events' important details, and criticism of federal government actions are all maliciously limited by government's domineering relationship with big media. It is absolutely criminal, and one of the most important things in your life, whether you realize this or not. Stories on gardening, or funny online videos, heart-warming actions of citizens, trials of unimportant Casey Anthonys, Scott Petersons, and Jodi Ariases, racism, and other useless coverage all too often supplant direly needed coverage of issues related to war, our international reputation, the economy, our standard of living, the near-deathly state of our currency, the ever growing police state, and more.

The willingness of Americans to medicate themselves into mental oblivion was realized by the book "Prozac Nation", and now has its 21st century equivalents in the forms of class C pain killers and aderol prominence. Even children are no longer safe - ritalin sees to that. For those willing to go the more nefarious path, street drug use and alcoholism runs rampant in the lower classes and youth. Promotions of pills for this and pills for that, coupled with the government's FDA control of new medicine development and sales, ensures that a significant portion of Americans remain doped up, happy, and less inclined to examine the world around themselves. This is Huxley's "Soma" realized.

Sex and sexual innuendo are propogated by every facet of government's subsidy-riddled Hollywood counterparts. The cozy relationship that exists between between government and media extends to the entertainment sector as well, with the easy opportunities for affecting the thoughts and trends of all Americans through the television and film proves too simple for the federal government to resist.

Throw in major sporting events - nearly all of which are subsidized by the feds, as well as the media coverage of them - overhyped to the point of hysteria by all of television, and you've got yourself a recipe for Roman Empire style "bread and circuses", a common distractor in that empire's day. The typical behavior in which today's fanatics - grown men - prance around in delirious obsession over a mere sports team, proving in some cases willing to kill for it, would astound yesteryear's adults to the point of amazement.

As the Roman commoners were oblivious to the instruments of their elitists' control, Nazis and Soviets too, so remain the majority of Americans to theirs. Governments keep one step ahead. But, "if you see as I see, if you feel as I feel", then you know there is something very wrong with this country, and you are not alone!

"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." - Jer. 33:3

Dylan Thomas Newman - "Velikovsky and the Genetics of Our Savior"

Immanuel Velikovsky, author of "Mankind in Amnesia", which I am painstakingly making my way through now, was a respected acquaintance of Sigmund Freud as well as friend and contemporary of Carl Jung.  A respected psychologist, medical doctor, and historical and scientific researcher, he was also a personal friend and colleague of Albert Einstein, who was reading Velikovsky's latest book at the time of his death.

Largely independent in his research and writings, Velikovsky was tabooed by the scientific establishment of his day.  But upon writing his world famous book, "Worlds in Collision," and subsequent other writings which seemed to confirm key elements of Biblical miracles, he became the target of a discrediting campaign so intense it plagued him mentally until his death.  The elitists' priest class of university professors can't have credit for historical events or scientific wonders being given to God, and certainly not by one of their own, a fellow unbeliever.  All praise must be directed to the State.

All that aside, in the introductory chapters of Velikovsky's "Mankind in Amnesia", he makes use of theories of Freud, Jung, and himself to establish an overwhelming case for the existence of a super consciousness that is possibly shared by all mankind.  This possible consciousness, says Velikovsky, was and still is shaped by worldwide-scale traumatic events in early history, and has resulted in an unconscious inherited memory shared by all, which is so powerful and pervasive it has imprinted on the human genetic makeup - DNA.

From this, I am reminded of that somewhat illusory Bible verse from Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, part of the description of God's cursing of Lucifer.

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Notice how He didn't say "between thee and the man", but rather "the woman", referring of course to Eve, with her "seed" being a reference to her eventual genetic lineage to Jesus Christ.  This reference to "the woman" is especially curious since, before this verse, all importance and significance had been placed on Adam alone.

However, God's exclusion of the male seed in the birth of Jesus may provide an extraordinary confirmation of Velikovsky's theory - that of a shared, worldwide human consciousness imparted by our DNA.  It practically jumped off the page when - in an amazing moment of confirmation - Velikovsky began to hypothesize for various reasons that this consciousness is passed down through males alone.

Any severe damage done to the genetic make-up of human beings could very easily equate to the fallen state of man as described in the Bible, and would explain the purpose of and need for Jesus' virgin birth.  If traumatic experiences are recorded in a shared, universal human consciousness and passed down through the DNA of males, then Jesus would not have been perfect in nature had he possessed such DNA.  A virgin birth was necessary for Jesus to avoid the damaged human consciousness and retain a holy, heavenly, perhaps God-connected one that we on earth do not understand, but could easily imply through logic exists.

Even further confirmation of a male-carried, genetically flawed consciousness that could potentially represent at least a part of man's fallen state can be seen in the fact that the fallen state did not come upon Eve immediately upon eating the forbidden fruit, but rather only after Adam ate of it too.  It is as if once his 'state became fallen'/'genetics became corrupted', the lesser state spread to Eve and their nakedness before God became realized.

So we can see that Velikovsky's theory and several Biblical nuances surrounding our Savior support each other strongly and lend evidence to the legitimacy of both.