British author Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World in 1931, “Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy” (Wikipedia[1]) – as opposed to the ideal utopian, there is a dystopian society with its “huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning.” Sounds familiar?
As if Huxley’s BNW is not enough, we have another British author, George Orwell, writing in 1949 his final book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which “examines the role of truth and facts within politics and their manipulation[2].” Sounds familiar!
No matter how early or how late in your world right now, as I begin to write this at about 2008 hours 08 08 2020, Manila time, with this essay, I am announcing my creation of this brand new blog, Brave New World PH.
The Beast is here.
The Best is yet to come!
I am looking for a non-masculine Brave New World, BNW. More like a feminine BNW, not excitingly sexy but exciting! (BNW image from comicbook TV[3], image I extended down a little bit)
The other image: And why did I superimpose a map of the Philippines? (from Wikipedia[4]). I want to point out that all of us Filipinos now have a duty to discover a brand new world called The BNW Philippines! You don’t see it now, but we will.
With BNW PH, I want to emphasize to all Filipinos that we in fact entered a brand new world beginning when President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Du30, a Mindanao-happy political leader, declared a partial lockdown in the whole country – legally only Metro Manila – starting midnight of Sunday, 15 March 2020. I don’t want to contest the why or how; I just want to get over it! With my proposal for a Brave New World PH!
All such thoughts had been triggered by an actual advertisement by a PH government agency extolling a highly successful farmer who once was an OFW. I consider that double jeopardy. One, government does not pay for Filipinos to applaud other Filipinos, especially a single success story, SSS. This is something old and something new: PH’s 1-year old Secretary of Agriculture William Dar has declared a clustering approach to PH Agriculture – see my essay, “The New 7 Arts Of War – Against PH Farmer Poverty, Via Clustering[5]” (05 August 2020, THiNK Journalism, Digital).
Which is why as a college grade in agriculture and a self-taught science writer, my view of the Brave New World PH is naturally anchored on agriculture. And certainly, based on:
“The New Thinking for Agriculture” and
The 8 Paradigms
(c/o William Dar, PH Secretary of Agriculture)
We must apply that whole package to create a brave new world for us. We have to fight bravely for beyondsurvival lockdown and for a Brave New Thinking-Agriculture Philippines!
That victory must be in a Brave New World starting now!
The Brand New Philippines is
for us not to Discover but
for us to Create.
First in our Minds.@517
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
[3]https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/brave-new-world-tv-show-spoilers-review-peacock/
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
[5]https://ithinkjournalism.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-new-7-arts-of-war-against-ph-farmer.html
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