Continued from Part 8 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Huxley makes a key point about the individual, claiming that “his contributions appear to approach zero; in practice they are all-important” (105). An individual does the work. An individual perceives, … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 7 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Huxley predicts “whispering machines and subliminal projectors” (83) at schools or hospitals–where the subjects are more suggestible–and the use of speeches and rituals in public spaces. By the way, in … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Continued from Part 6 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited “Sexual Freedom” Huxley explains that the aim of the dictatorship’s methods in Brave New World (BNW) is to “keep their subjects from making … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 5 Book Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Writing in the 1950s, Aldous Huxley writes, “Today the art of mind-control is in the process of becoming a science” (39). The scientists in this field, he claims, are … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 4 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Huxley refers to Pavlov’s experiments on animals, in which even the strongest ones display a nervous breakdown after the repeated stress of Pavlov’s cruel experiments (59). He notes also how … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 3 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Propaganda, Mind Control & Entertainment Huxley admits that political and commercial entities had developed new techniques for manipulating the thoughts of the public “in the interest of some minority“(4). He … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 2 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Do People Really Want Freedom? Huxley asserts, referring also to a poll, that people will be happy enough to “live by bread alone–or at least by bread and circuses alone” … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 1 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Just as Huxley, writing in the 1950s, predicted a “new medieval system”, also Giuliano Amato, an architect of the European Union praised the Middle Ages in a 2000 interview: “. … Continue reading →
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Brave New World Revisited was published in 1958 and is a non-fiction commentary by Huxley on his 1930’s novel Brave New World in which he predicts a totalitarian world government that dominates human beings … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Continued from Part 10 Continuing with the themes of Huxley’s Brave New World: Immaturity Adults in the Brave New World live immaturely, with a lack of seriousness and an appetite for endless fun. … Continue reading →