1. Will Self, novelist and journalist, is a high status leftist priest par excellence, quite typical of our ruling elites. He specialises in making the elites feel guilty about consumption & their peaceful lives. But, significantly, his views are shifting towards the right...
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2. In this video debate about Huxley and Orwell, held by IQSquared (similar demo to TED), Self drops liberal verities. He speaks about the existence of a biological underclass in Britain (analogous to Epsilons and Deltas in Brave New World).https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw …
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3. This is a big shift in our ruling priestly class, and Self is ahead of the curve (he also admires John Gray and has given up on socialism). Speaking about biological inequalities has been verboten for decades. It means admitting inequality cannot be fixed through “education”.
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4. Basically, it means abandoning the post-war ideological project for “social justice” in the West and falling back to a more social Darwinian or genetic approach to managing society. The fact that Self, whose grandfather & father were architects of “planning” & technocracy...
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5. ...has given up on this project is a significant shift. Incidentally, his opponent in this debate—Adam Gopnik—is about as intellectually stimulating as a wet anchovy. He’s little more than an NPC propagandist against Trump—no heft to him. Emotion without thought.
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@RadishMag wrote a fantastic piece on this: https://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/orwell-vs-huxley/ …
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