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Continuing with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley:

In 1953 Huxley and his wife Maria applied for United States citizenship.

At the citizenship examination, he

“refused to bear arms for the US and would not state that his objections were based on religious ideals, the only excuse allowed under the McCarran Act.”

He “withdrew his application” but stayed in the US.

“In 1959, Huxley turned down an offer to be made a Knight Bachelor by the Macmillan government without giving a reason; his brother Julian had been knighted in 1958, while his brother Andrew would be knighted in 1974.”

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Bachelor:

In the British honours system, the title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry.

An example of an Order of Chivalry is the Order of the British Empire, with the top two classes having the title of “Knight” or “Dame.”

It seems in these cases that Aldous Huxley displayed strong principles regarding warfare and possibly other issues of concern to him. He seems to have been a pacifist. I have noticed that he did not seem to glamorize government or the British Empire in his novels.

In the autumn semester of 1960 Huxley was invited by Professor Huston Smith to be the Carnegie Visiting professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As part of the MIT centennial program of events organised by the Department of Humanities, Huxley presented a series of lectures titled, “What a Piece of Work is a Man” which concerned history, language, and art.

I would note that Professor Huston Smith’s research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smith) focused on the world’s religions. This ties in with what I believe were Huxley’s social engineering interests.

Biochemist Robert S. de Ropp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._de_Ropp is cited by Wikipedia as praising Huxley. Note that de Ropp later became a writer in the fields of “human potentials” and “spiritual realisation.” Again, this overlaps with Huxley’s pursuits.

One of Huxley’s biographers, Harold H. Watts is mentioned by Wikipedia: https://archive.org/details/aldoushuxley00watt/page/n3/mode/2up.

Wikipedia’s description of the 1958 Mike Wallace interview seems very different from my first interpretation of that interview:

“In a 1958 televised interview conducted by journalist Mike Wallace, Huxley outlined several major concerns: the difficulties and dangers of world overpopulation; the tendency towards distinctly hierarchical social organisation; the crucial importance of evaluating the use of technology in mass societies susceptible to persuasion; the tendency to promote modern politicians to a naive public as well-marketed commodities.”

https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/1ePNGa0m3XA

This description of the interview, however, indicates the pernicious side of Huxley’s beliefs and agenda about human beings and is consistent with the content of his non-fiction work, Brave New World Revisited.

Huxley puts the blame on “overpopulation” for our expected loss of freedom.

“Overpopulation” is the mantra continually repeated by the elite class for decades now.

I will have to go over the interview again, but basically what he wouldn’t do is explain the actual mechanism of this, that there is an elite class fearful of human beings becoming too numerous for them to handle. This is what Fabian socialism is all about–how to control human beings.

They cloak their complaint about humans using the terms of environmentalism, “sustainable development, and the Green movement just as they do with their biotechnology, earth-surveillance and resource-inventory projects spelled out in United Nations Agenda 21.

Who are the “elite” or who serves the elite agenda? Well, who is KNIGHTED? See the articles on knighthood above for actual examples. His brother Julian, for example, the first head of UNESCO, was knighted.

To be continued (Part 7)