Non-Violence Aldous Huxley
Non-Violence Aldous Huxley Theme In his essay "Non-Violence by Aldous Huxley the author makes it very clear that a peaceful future depends on what private individuals you, me ,us- do on our own or ,better, still in groups.He believes that the obly effective method for carrying out large scale social reforms is non-violent methods.Violence produces the results of violence.The attempt to improve reforms by violent methods are doomed to failure. Huxley favours a society fundamentally different from the one that existed in 1946. But how should change occur, given that the overwhelming powers of violence and mass persuasion are held by what he calls the "ruling oligarchy"? Huxley believes that nonviolence is the only way forward. Huxley argues for nonviolence as the only hopeful possibility given the power that science and technology, via modern weapons, has placed in the hands of oppressors. Huxley's support for nonviolence can be interpreted as an independent principle