Notes on Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley – Part 2 (updated)
Updated and revised: May 11, 2025
All references are quoted as of April 24, 2025 unless otherwise stated.
Another goal of these commentaries is to expose readers to aspects of the Ruling Class’s agenda–which needs to be defeated.
This also includes social engineering and relevant topics relating to culture and philosophy.
At the start of this new series of notes on the works of Aldous Huxley, I wanted to go through the Wikipedia article about him and note any points of interest:
Wikipedia: Aldous Huxley (as of April 22, 2025)
According to Wikipedia, Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England in 1894 and died in 1963 at age 69 in Los Angeles County, California.
It is significant where Huxley died because California has been a major centre of cultural engineering for the world.
Related to this point, Wikipedia lists his occupation as “writer” and “philosopher.”
Also I think (even based on evidence in Wikipedia) Huxley could be correctly described as an agent of the ruling class–as a salesman and marketer for the Agenda, and also as an active leader involved in the implementation of the Agenda.
Huxley was diagnosed with cancer in 1960 and died on November 22, 1963:
…Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for “LSD, 100 μg, intramuscular.” According to her account of his death in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later …
Even the way Huxley died connected with his interest in and promotion of mind-altering drugs.
One of his “notable works,” listed in this Wikipedia article–along with Brave New World, Island, Point Counter Point, The Perennial Philosophy, and The Devils of Loudun–is The Doors of Perception.
The Doors of Perception “interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline.”
The Wikipedia article on this book says it “was the influence behind Jim Morrison naming his band The Doors in 1965.”
Drug use is a key element in the methods of the scientific dictatorship described in Huxley’s novel, Brave New World.
Wikipedia calls Huxley a “pacifist” and I don’t doubt it based on my reading so far. However it brings up my concern about the promotion of drug use possibly discrediting–in the public mind–the later Vietnam era anti-war movementa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors states that Morrison’s band “is widely regarded as an important figure of the era’s counterculture.”
The article on one of Jim Morrison’s songs, “The Unknown Soldier”, classifies it as an “anti-war song”:
Critic Charles S. Gardner of Bridgeport Telegram, reviewing the Doors concert in JFK Stadium, called “The Unknown Soldier” a “desperately anti-war ballad climaxing with Morrison’s being thrown to the floor in a burst of exploding electronic feedback.”
Ironically, the Wikipedia article on Jim Morrison describes his high-ranking military father:
In August 1964, Admiral Morrison was commanding U.S. naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The following year, in 1965, the incident was a leading pretext used to justify U.S. engagement in the Vietnam War.
The date of Huxley’s death is significant. November 22, 1963 is the same day that Christian writer C. S. Lewis died and the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated:
“Media coverage of Huxley’s death, along with that of fellow British author C. S. Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of John F. Kennedy on the same day, less than seven hours before Huxley’s death.”
Huxley’s memorial service took place in London in December 1963; it was led by his elder brother Julian. … his ashes were interred in the family grave at the Watts Cemetery, home of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton, Guildford, Surrey, England.
You can see his Hollywood involvement in screen writing at the IMDB.com page for Aldous Huxley.
The films and TV episodes listed with writer credits for Huxley begin in 1932 and run into the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Of course they are ongoing long past his death.
It is significant that, right off the bat in 1932, there is a film version of Brave New World. That indicates there was a lot of clout behind the promotion of Huxley’s major novel.
Other early films with writing credits for Aldous Huxley include, for example, Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Jane Eyre (1943). Sometimes IMDB lists Huxley as “uncredited” as with 1951’s Alice In Wonderland.
Notes for further research
References in Wikipedia
Find source for allegation that Julian Huxley at UNESCO promoted his brother’s famous novel for schools
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