Welcome to Conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. Hopefully a little bit of a shorter one today. We've been doing a lot of shorter ones actually this week. This is the fifth podcast and I hope those who like

the shorter podcasts are enjoying this. Don't don't think that I'm going to be

doing this forever though. We'll see, I don't know. I try to get three podcasts

out a week if I can and this is my fifth

podcast for this week but it was important enough the subject matter we're about to

go over that I felt that I needed to I got a piece of information I'm about to share with you earlier this week and I had

already recorded the first four and I thought you know I need to talk about this because

it could end up affecting people who are in certain Christian schools and parents and students I think need to know about this

and

It's kind of sad just to set this up there's two dystopian novels famous

dystopian novels that are often cited when comparing to kind of the totalitarianism that we see being foisted upon us today.

And one is the book Brave New World, one is the book 1984, and different books, but to create or to highlight one of the differences

between them.

In Brave New World, people kind of usher in their own prison.

They willfully just accept tyranny and it's something that you don't actually have to put them in the cage

because they'll they'll lock the door themselves kind of thing and in 1984 it's a very

top-down government, very oppressive spying on you all the time.

But in Brave New World, that kind of mechanism isn't really necessary.

People just police themselves.

And we see a mixture of that going on.

Frankly, it's both in some ways.

And this is a brave new world moment in some ways.

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