By Alan Mercer Just following up on this vote. I was just looking for some kind of glimmer of hope. Votes in Parliament – Vote No. 252 (redirects to https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/41/2/252): That this House (i) recognise that the leadership of the … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 9 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Huxley argues that “over-population” is a threat to freedom Huxley, writing in the late 1950s, hypes his allegation that “over-population” is the “biological enemy of freedom” (17). He refers to … 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 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 →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Continued from Part 7 (Revised: January 3, 2014) Sterilization In Huxley’s novel, the majority of female embryos are sterilized (p. 10). The remaining women, such as one of the main characters, are trained … Continue reading →
This is just some media propaganda analysis for the day: Daily podcast: CBC News: World Report for 2013/11/20 (only up for 24 h I think) Related article: legislation “to be announced” CBC “news” host in brief interview with fellow “journalist” … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. From the first will of Cecil Rhodes (1877), quoted by Carroll Quigley in the Anglo-American Establishment: The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. From the statements attributed to Huxley in the introduction to this edition of Brave New World, it seems clear that Huxley’s fear at the time was of the people living in a world … Continue reading →