Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace

[RSLudlum]

Quite an interesting kind of interview that you will not see in 'major' media today.


YouTube - Aldous Huxley's Mind Control and Depopulation Interview (Part 1 of 3) - look in the description area. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scN70fd1rSc)

YouTube - Aldous Huxley's Mind Control and Depopulation Interview (Part 2 of 3) - look in the description area. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU23W_8Jqsk)

YouTube - Aldous Huxley's Mind Control and Depopulation Interview (Part 3 of 3) - look in the description area. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zmg7WzHKGs)

[Vessol]

I read Brave New World and found it more scary then even Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[0zzy]

I read Brave New World and found it more scary then even Nineteen Eighty-Four.

I hear it is more true than it too. We will be destroyed not by the government itself, but by the saturation of leisure things which will blind us from what the government is doing cause we just don't care if we are happy with our food, tv, etc.etc.

but i havent read any book i so have no idea :D

[Vessol]

I hear it is more true than it too. We will be destroyed not by the government itself, but by the saturation of leisure things which will blind us from what the government is doing cause we just don't care if we are happy with our food, tv, etc.etc.

but i havent read any book i so have no idea :D

rock on dood!

books are for fools.

[BenIsForRon]

Great video. I really wish ABC, CBS, NBC still had programming like this.

I've read Brave New World, it is very disturbing, because of how plausible the whole scenario is.

[RSLudlum]

Great video. I really wish ABC, CBS, NBC still had programming like this.

I've read Brave New World, it is very disturbing, because of how plausible the whole scenario is.

If someone talks like this in the media today they are painted as kooky, conspiracy theorists that look too deep into the 'void' instead of just skimming on the accepted superficiality of issues.

[BenIsForRon]

Bump.

[apropos]

For those who are interested, Brave New World Revisited is Huxley's nonfiction follow-up which covers many of these topics.

[catdd]

"If someone talks like this in the media today they are painted as kooky, conspiracy theorists that look too deep into the 'void' instead of just skimming on the accepted superficiality of issues."

Yes, and that proves that the brainwashing effect of the MSM has already taken over much of our freedom.
I found it interesting that he thought that communism would be the system of choice in an overpopulated world.

[Chieppa1]

Anyone ever read is book "Island"? Socialist Utopian island, taken over by evil Capitalists looking for oil.

[BenIsForRon]

Anyone ever read is book "Island"? Socialist Utopian island, taken over by evil Capitalists looking for oil.

Let me guess, because you heard that was the plot, you didn't read the book.

Small scale socialism isn't the end of the world, check out the Zapatista's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation

[Chieppa1]

Let me guess, because you heard that was the plot, you didn't read the book.

Small scale socialism isn't the end of the world, check out the Zapatista's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation

I read the book twice. But thanks for the judgement. :rolleyes:

When I read it, I saw nothing wrong with the Socialist society that was portrayed. It seems like I place I'd could live happily. My problem was how Capitalism was portrayed. When it wasn't even real Capitalism, but more of a government/empire/corporatism system.

[BenIsForRon]

K, my bad.

I haven't read it, but I would like to. Did he refer to them as capitalists?

[Chieppa1]

K, my bad.

I haven't read it, but I would like to. Did he refer to them as capitalists?

No. I can't say its a book designed to attack Capitalism. But, in the hands of a Liberal school teacher.....see my point?

[BenIsForRon]

No. I can't say its a book designed to attack Capitalism. But, in the hands of a Liberal school teacher.....see my point?

Nope, your original post seemed like it was discrediting Aldous Huxley. I think his insights are very useful. Evidently, Mike Wallace agrees.

[Deborah K]

I read the book. It is foreboding. Even though the things in it haven't happened yet. Soma anyone?

[Chieppa1]

Nope, your original post seemed like it was discrediting Aldous Huxley. I think his insights are very useful. Evidently, Mike Wallace agrees.

The book was enjoyable. I read it in a day. Just his portrayal of certain characters made them out to be evil lovers of Capitalism. Like the young "Prince" of the island. He had befriended a General in the neighboring country's government. He was "wined and dined" by this general and is "manipulated by greed" and the money-loving capitalist government comes and destroys the poor Socialists.

What I meant was that, the book could be used as a tool to show how capitalism leads to greed and corruption.

I don't think that is Aldous Huxley's idea when he set out. He might has been trying to show how Imperialism destroys intelligent, intellectually advanced cultures for the sake of resources or control.

[Brian4Liberty]

I hear it is more true than it too. We will be destroyed not by the government itself, but by the saturation of leisure things which will blind us from what the government is doing cause we just don't care if we are happy with our food, tv, etc.etc.


There was a radio talk show on today where they were talking about how kids only communicate through the net (computer/cell phones/etc) today. Since they were born with it, they don't question it at all, and most don't realize that they have zero privacy now.