Aldous Huxley

[Deleted member 48881]

Just finished watching this interview.. Man, he was a genius. Notice that this was live tv, wish I was alive back then when people did not have to get interrupted after every sentence while opining.

 

[magicjuan]

A very clever man indeed.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Just finished watching this interview.. Man, he was a genius. Notice that this was live tv, wish I was alive back then when people did not have to get interrupted after every sentence while opining.

Brave New World, innit.

Classic dystopian fiction. He wasn't the most elegant of writers, but influential all the same.

 

[summerisle]

Brave New World, innit.

Classic dystopian fiction. He wasn't the most elegant of writers, but influential all the same.

I've got a good memory : I remember this, it's a good listen.

In Our Time - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - BBC Sounds

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Believe that the Doors got their name from his autobiography— The Doors of Perception.
Used to have a cat I named after him
RIP Huxley

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Brave New World, innit.

Classic dystopian fiction. He wasn't the most elegant of writers, but influential all the same.

Brave New World is the book we should all be scared of. Not 1984. Everything dumbed down, everybody compliant. Love the book.

 

[summerisle]

He was a eugenicist, as well as H G Wells.

 

[Yarrgh]

Fascinating watch

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Was taught English for a time by one of his many relatives, a niece ( normal comp), she liked my creative stuff the rest not so much...

 

[chrismpw]

Just finished watching this interview.. Man, he was a genius. Notice that this was live tv, wish I was alive back then when people did not have to get interrupted after every sentence while opining.

Harks back to the days when intelligent, thoughtful orators were on display in the media and intelligent people would listen. No room for them now in fast paced exciting world of short attention span tv for the drooling masses.

Of course its easier to win votes from the stupid than it is to convince the intelligent - so our media is all set up today to distract and attract the blithering morons. Such subtle control of the media is how Huxley's dystopia will be formed.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

He taught Orwell for a year, which seems like an incredible coincidence - the two foremost dystopians of the 20th century in the same classroom.

Agree that Orwell was better but Huxley was right - he says as much in this letter he wrote to Orwell congratulating him on 1984:

George Orwell's letter from his former French teacher, Aldous Huxley, about Nineteen Eighty-Four

Shortly after George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, he received a letter from his onetime high school French teacher, Aldous Huxley, who had published Brave New Work 17 years…

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[Toffe3m4n]

Read Brave New World when I was at school. Probably didn't appreciate it back then like I would now.

 

[ste d' indica]

He was a eugenicist, as well as H G Wells.

He was H.G. Wells as well?! He did write a lot then.

 

[degsy]

Brave New World is the book we should all be scared of. Not 1984. Everything dumbed down, everybody compliant. Love the book.

Harks back to the days when intelligent, thoughtful orators were on display in the media and intelligent people would listen. No room for them now in fast paced exciting world of short attention span tv for the drooling masses.

Of course its easier to win votes from the stupid than it is to convince the intelligent - so our media is all set up today to distract and attract the blithering morons. Such subtle control of the media is how Huxley's dystopia will be formed.

I think we have version of it already running
Edit; and I don't mean here either

 

[summerisle]

He was H.G. Wells as well?! He did write a lot then.