from The Waking Times:
In a televised interview with ABC’s Mike Wallace in 1958, author of the seminal classic Brave New World, Aldous Huxley laid out his rather grim vision for the future of the human race in a prescient and timeless warning for us to wake up. After having lived through the bloodbaths of World War I and II and in the early stages of the nuclear cold war, he discussed the problems of freedom and survival in America, making a number of predictions more relevant today, nearly 60 years later, than ever before.
For a long time now, Americans have been urged to prepare for some inevitable calamity such as the power grid going down, a financial collapse, or a dozen other scenarios, depending on which pundit you follow. We, at the Solution Series, cannot predict the future, nor do we intend to try. What we do know is that whatever happens going forward—good or bad—will be much more manageable and livable with solid communications in place.
The adults are back in the room and the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” has never been higher.
It will come as no surprise to friends and regular readers that I hold but a handful of contemporary intellects in high esteem, given the present Zeitgeist, the current state of state education and the level of public discourse. It will be even less surprising that Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo is one of them. He is a free and independent thinker, whose original, unshackled and unadulterated ideas I have often found inspiring and stimulating, and whose writings have long served as food for thought and for enlightened debates that always leave those who engage in them wealthier in spirit once over, or at the very least, more curious than before.
