Under the Iron Curtain Imagine what the world would be
like if we were all "under the iron curtain." In his foreword to
the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this
statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task
assigned, in present- day totalitarian states, to ministries of
propaganda…." Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching
(brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community
gatherings, and allusions to prominent political dictators,
Huxley bitterly satirized totalitarian propaganda and political
technique to point out the problems of a dystopian society.
The way the fascist and totalitarian regimes used mass
propaganda techniques to brainwash their people was nearly
identical to the way Huxley described the hypnopaedic
teachings in his novel. He also thought, however, that the
present-day totalitarian states' methods were still "crude and
unscientific." For example, in the novel the different classes
had been brainwashed since birth to believe......

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