The distinction between societies and the "ultimate revolution" described by Huxley is that the human race today allows the people around them to influence them, good or bad. There has always been a type of direct action on humans following each other that has going on since the beginning of time. But this has become a violent nature. This reminds me of MYLFE retreat 2017. The discussion was about how there are 3 chairs, a purple one in the middle and 2 green ones on the outside, you are the purple chair and you have your two best friends next to you are the green chairs. You 3 are all held together by a rope. Ok now lets say that one, or both, of your friends are bad influences. when one of your friends gets up to go do something bad you follow them, because you are attached to them. This is exactly what Huxley is saying in is speech is that we allow others to determine what we are going to do. His comparison of the Pavlovian methods used by totalitarian rulers and religious leaders was how Wesley’s method of producing change were based on the technique of increasing psychological stress a limit by talking about hellfire making people extremely helpless to suggestion and then suddenly releasing this stress by offering hopes of heaven and this showed how completely on purely natural a skilled natural psychologist, as Wesley was, could discover these Pavlovian methods.
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