PsychoTone - OverPoP (Brave New World)

This is Aldous Huxley
A man haunted by a vision of hell on earth
A searing social critic mr. Huxley
27 years ago wrote brave new world
A novel that predicted that someday the entire world
Would live under a frightful dictatorship
Today mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror
Is probably just around the corner for all of us
We'll find out why in a moment
This is the force which in general terms
Can be called overpopulation
The mounting pressure of population
Pressing upon existing ressources
This of course is an extraordinary thing
Something is happening which has never happened
In the world's history before
I mean let's juste take a simple fact
That between the time of the birth of Christ
And the landing of the Mayflower
The population of the earth doubled
It rose from 250 million to probably 500 million
Today the population of the earth is rising
At such a rate that it will double in half a century
Tonight's guest Aldous Huxley is a man of letters
As disturbing as he is distinguished
We'll find out why in a moment
Why should overpopulation work to diminish our freedoms
Well in a number of ways
I mean the experts in the field
Like Harrison Brown for example pointed out
That in the underdeveloped countries
Actually the standard of living
Is at present falling
That people have less to eat
And less goods per capita
Than they had 50 years ago
And as the position of these countries
The economic position
Becomes more and more precarious
Obviously the central government has to
Take over more and more responsibility
For keeping the Triplt state on an even keel
And then of course you're likely
To get social unrest under such conditions
With again and in an intervention
Of the central government
So I think one sees here a pattern
Which seems to be pushing
Very strongly towards
A totalitarian regime
And unfortunately as in all these
Underdeveloped countries
Tonight's guest Aldous Huxley is a man of letters
As disturbing as he is distinguished
We'll find out why in a moment

Written by:
Simon Moutier

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