World Brain

WORLD BRAIN - a lecture in 1937 by H G Wells

Its an idea that sounds like it could solve all problems.  We're used to having the internet, connecting everyone around the world to a massive knowledge store (unless censored).  Back in 1937 when troubled times were brewing before WWII 2 years later, H G Wells was considering a collecting together of all world knowledge into some form as a World Encyclopedia constantly updated; whereby he believed mankind would learn and know how to live in peace, 'better than political revolutions'.  He could see that leaders were making wrong decisions and creating a state of 'science and ignorance'. He identified the groups of 'scientific specialists' 'war making politicians', elite in finery, plus 'medieval universities - boating while battlefield rages'.

'This last lot (elite gents) the organised brain of mankind - not doing its job!'

Wells observed the 'destructive power haunting intelligent minds'.  We might call these people the deep state, within civil services, and defence contractors such as DARPA.  He saw the world 'not developing with sensitivity' within the 'state of science and ignorance'.  In a world of  'bankrupt traditions', forms the 'jungle path of darkness'. Cultural traditions are seen to diminish in present times, towards a diversity-led non-culture.  He observed 'our minds are not equipped for the job', while we were 'drifting towards monstrously destructive world war' and 'to obliterate civilisation is inevitable'; which WWII almost did.

This sounds exactly like the situation today (2025) with various waring factions acting bizarrely with real war and threats of wars putting us all at risk; even committing actual genocide, the likes of which wouldn't even have been imagined in 1937.  Modern Europeans couldn't even imagine it would happen in their life times since the lessons of WWII.

In the aftermath of WWI, Wells is against nationalism - 'the ancient tradition of small nation governments'.  Though he thought Socialism wouldn't work as 'seizing power is a gangster game'; as was 'suppression of discussion in Germany, Italy, Russia'.  Wells did not think the League of Nations nor the International Criminal Court at the Hague would help much.  Who'd have thought we'd still have censorship laws being contrived today in 2025 by our European leaders, not to criticise government policies or countries committing genocide.

Wells could foresee the very likely possibility of an armageddon for humanity.

'...all prove unnecessary to have very many great cities destroyed and very many millions of people burnt, suffocated, blown limb from limb, before men see what stares them in the face and accept the obvious'.

This they did in 1945 after Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, and we believe general 'world' peace has been kept by nuclear deterrent. And yet today leaders are talking of 'nuclear bombs' and launching destruction of potential nuclear development sites.

He thought a World Pax was needed to agree whats right, while world problems were only increasing: a permanent institution with global scholars of best mind might solve the world's problems. Maybe his ideas led to the Club of Rome, Council of Foreign Relations, Tri Lateral Commission, Harvard University (where they develop dodgy science and politics). If that has indeed happened, then they solved nothing. We know these organisations support a New World Order of world government; which supports the aggressions of 2025. Many now believe countries would be best off operating as simple nation states, not part of a global hegemony.

Interestingly Wells wrote:

'...a common federal protection of the natural resources of the planet from national, class or individual appropriation, and a world system of money and credit.

This sounds just like the UN Agenda30 and one wonders if Wells's ideas were taken seriously but by maniacal controllers from his future following 1945.

Writers and alternative news organisations today are at the forefront of such a new 'world knowledge' offering a peaceful philosophy; available across the internet.  This movement is really what Wells envisioned; that sensible minds would come to right decisions.  So far, they rarely get into political power, which is still controlled by a western war mongering hegemony.  We cannot believe all main media due to the infusion of political propaganda. Often truth is called 'misinformation' and authorities are determined to prevent free speech which doesn't agree with their policies.  The Online Safety Act 2025 (add link) is hiding much information: even harmless historical posts are being blocked on Twitter-X.  Google we thought was the answer to everything until we discovered its controllers had an agenda when it suits them to hide truth news.  So with artificial intelligence computing, we need to have the same idealistic momentum as Wells, to procure it for good and have it trained in human purpose and philosophy, which many AI developers are now discussing: to infuse AI with human orientated meaning.

If AI 'superorganism' is not trained in human values, it could run amok.  Maniacal controllers will use it to control humanity: already developing biodigital identity, which may become law in many countries.  Worse scenarios is using AI in warfare: already seen being used for drone command and control in warfare.