Science Fiction: Agenda Tool or Escape from Reality? (Video)

In this episode, the Common Core Diva Lynne Taylor and I take a look at how science fiction has and continues to fuel the “education” agenda, and some of the top promoters were people like Aldous Huxley, his father and George Orwell. Now, many organizations are promoting the same nonsense as though it is acceptable and the rest of the population should go along with it.

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Resources for the show:
H.G. Wells: 1) https://jacobin.com/2023/07/h-g-wells-socialism-progress-science-fiction
AND https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hg-wells
1a) https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6155&context=atg
AND https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/h-g-wells/ (Scifi, Fabian Society, Margaret Singer)

Wells as a thief? https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/03/31/famous-plagiarists-could-it-happen-today/

2) https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/technocracy-hypothesis

3) How does fiction shape politics and what can we learn from analyzing its impact on public attitudes? — Alliance for Peacebuilding https://share.google/i3h5ku45BtKwc6SLy

4) Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction – PMC https://share.google/oRWFgLTTe6sJgBFAG
4a) Speaking of things ‘sci-fi’, how about $300k ‘dogs’ data center developers are trotting out:
https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/robot-dog-patrols-data-centers-ai-infrastructure-buildout/

5) Strange Horizons – Political Agency and Inevitability in Speculative Fiction By Ruthanna Emrys, By Lila Garrott, By Alexis Shotwell https://share.google/nZ0iZu7JL3ClkZgUX

6) Common Core aligned lesson: The War of the Worlds Worksheets, Project, Test | Ereading Worksheets https://share.google/txWZZmaUQEHig4as8

Aldous Huxley:
7) From the National Endowment for Humanities (Common Core aligned entity): https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/novemberdecember/feature/the-talented-mr-huxley

7a) “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (ISBN 978-0-06-053526-1) cites his regard for B.F. Skinner, pages 322 & 323)

8) https://www.audible.com/blog/summary-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley

9) Totalitarianism in print:
https://minnesotaenglishjournalonline.org/2020/05/05/aldous-huxleys-brave-new-world-a-cautionary-tale-of-totalitarian-ideology-by-shahin-hossain/
AND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDg7L-dFdw
(Note about 12 minutes)

10) Promoting eugenics (nothing new by the government) https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/article/29/3/105/89976/Designing-a-Brave-New-World-Eugenics-Politics-and 

AND

https://voegelinview.com/aldous-huxley-political-thought-man-letters/

11) Aldous Huxley and the United Nations: https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/journals/22202293/2018/4/5
AND
https://adametinson.com/Visions%20of%20Human%20Rights%20-%20Writing%20Sample%20-%20Adam%20Etinson.pdf
11a) https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/defeating-enemies-freedom
11b) The pages from “The Human Situation” (2nd attachment in the email)

12) Common Core spin on Huxley: https://www.socialstudies.com/pdf/CFL332CC.pdfhttps://files.harpercollins.com/HarperAcademic/BraveNewWorld_TeachingGuide_final.pdf

13) BOTH Wells/Huxley: https://scispace.com/pdf/signs-of-the-t-aldous-huxley-high-art-and-american-yzgqo10wx9.pdf
AND
https://www.brlsi.org/proceedings/aldous-huxley-writer-and-prophet/
(Note: pseudo science and psychology usage)

More ties:
https://www.pbs.org/video/what-you-dont-know-about-the-father-of-sci-f-pmoypj/
(Note: this is about 18 minutes)
Workers Education Association is based in the UK: https://www.wea.org.uk/about-us

Related resources:
Technocracy (what I call ‘technocrappiness’):

**Many are beginning to cite resources from the UN about data centers, but are they really fighting them or creating a false illusion of safety so that those opposed and fighting them will be ultimately exposed (hey, it’s a great ‘tin foil hat’ plot).
Check this one out about the technocracy push for more data: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/abs/localizing-the-un-2030-agenda-io-technocracys-engagement-with-territorybased-approaches-to-data/3057D98443D34337CEE12B25D5100535

Our friend, Patrick Wood, an expert on technocracy, was interviewed on how technocrappiness ties to data centers:: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-centers-draining-the-grid-flock-surveillance-you/id1796245001?i=1000771948034&l=vi

From 2023, the International Political Science Association: https://www.ipsa.org/na/event/rise-digital-technocracy

How did the IPSA play into education? https://www.ipsa.org/about-ipsa/history

A Patriot’s Handbook” by Caroline Kennedy (ISBN: 0-7868-6918-6)
Oppenheimer AND Einstein’s writings, pages 446-448
(Note: both are considered ‘patriots’)

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