I think "Brave New World" has an undeservedly bad reputation. The futurist F.M. Esfandiary (a.k.a. FM-2030) made the case in his writings for "Brave New World" as an appropriate model for life in "the future," though he doesn't mention the novel or Huxley by name. Besides, what boy wouldn't like all the easy girls? Everyone belongs to everyone else!
@selfidentity1 I meant that the social model shown in the novel has an undeservedly bad reputation. It also has literary flaws. Huxley could have used Lenina as another interpreter of the story, but instead she comes across as a totally air-headed chick who would fit right into our world in 2011. I mean, seriously, can't you imagine Lenina yakking and texting on her smart phone, taking pointless digital photos and posting nonsense about her life on Twitter and Facebook?
@MrAdvancedAtheist I haven't read the book so I dont know who Lenina is. But I know it refers to stuff like cloning and manipulation of fetus which is scarily premonitory.
@hitman748 Well, why don't you tell us who he is so we are therefore enlightened? Not all of us are born with your TACT and INTELLIGENCE and KNOWLEDGE of famous persons of past eras.
There were and are, always those who "march to a different drummer". They were and are called malcontents, unsuccessful, conspiracy throrists, conspiracy nuts, crazy, bongo, etc. For some reason, people seem to want to destroy or disregard the messengers who try to inform them of the truth. Truth is not as pretty as the lie. The lie can be trimmed and packaged and all loose ends snipped...
Too bad he couldn't foresee the part that consumerism would play in his brave new world. This shit happened under our nose. All they have to do is legalize drugs and you have his slave society in any country in the west. Sadly I would be for legalization just so i can legally escape this shit hole country. Give me heroin and Ill do any job you want.
@TheWillIamLee87 Oh please. People who don't want to use drugs won't use drugs. Whether or not they are legal. I smoke marijuana occasionally and have tried ecstasy and I can safely say it's never something i will do again. I won't even consider doing any other drugs. They cloud a persons' mind and you lose control of your body. The government does not control the people. Maybe it has some sway over the sheep of society, but even the remotely intelligent know not to trust Big Brother too much.
@kittycatcarley I actually agree with you that people won't use drugs just because they are legal. I can't really see where what I said has anything to do with that. I did say that mindless consumerism has damaged our my country. I also said that if drugs where legal than Huxley's vision would be compete. Never did I mention that drugs were bad or that people would do drugs because they are legal. I actually like drugs and would like them to be legalized so it would be easier for me to get them
Imagine if we were able to abolish government, wars and money ^^ We we're exploring space right know. i think we could be hundred of years more advanced.
around 8:00 - the "possible threat" of commercials. decades later: Pringles and growing world obesity. and our parents cherished those products as the positives in democracy, natural free choice, bla bla. worse than having limited choice is to be forced to make a free choice. because if you have to choose between bad food and healthy food you would naturally go for the one with all the added flavors and crap. and most from the two previous generations would actually welcome that. true slaves.
wow, he's an excellent communicator, no stumbling around with words, no stalling for time, no dodging the question, and the questions are much more than superficially probing, they've actually required him to have thought thoroughly about the subject beforehand.
cont.....which altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory parts), published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of Nazi 'gas chambers,' a 'genocide' of the Jews, or of 'six million' Jewish victims of the war."
all these things, in 1984 and BNW are happening now, slowly, but surely, and maybe not as explicitly, but they are :( this chap is a dude and knows exactly whate hes talking about.. better start looking out for white vans... ;)
Genius indeed. i like the interviewer in this also. He seems intelligent and aware. These days, many interviewers would be automatons who would seek to ridicule and belittle his arguments rather let him speak and express his enlightening comments
@chrisaspinall not to mention most people in the world would turn this off after 30 seconds. people dont care to learn, they have been taught that intelligence is boring. they will switch over to mtv where they are not required to THINK
@chrisaspinall I totally agree with you : 1.A Genius mind. Is impressive to have the percetion where the world will be in 50 years especially when ourselves living it we can't feel the vigilance and slavory of their "democracy".
2. The interviewer indeed is quite open minded comparing the idiots we see these days
Wow - a clear and sharp mind that is relevant today, he just debased any political campaign in the western nations and the rest of the world as being run on the basis of untruth or popular appeal like a prophet. He is on my list for the next to read more of after I get better acquainted JW Goethe - Faust did fascinate me first time I read it
A peek at the beginnings of the matrix Huxley's mind was so perceptive. Also see Adam Curtis' " The Century of Self". a very detailed documentary of the path.
Yeah, it's Obama, but it's also every president we have had in a long time. Our elections have been reduced to popularity contests. Don't you remember the KEY question of the 2000 race- who would you rather have a beer with?
never heard the guy talk before, he sounds exactly the way I imagined lol
RebLaCrusade 3 months ago
this guy is a genius i read dooors of perception , well aldous in my mannn
andre66688 7 months ago
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I have to read this book, I just have to!
selfidentity1 7 months ago
when was the last time that i watched an intelligent discussion or debate? may be in 1984, eheh
selfidentity1 7 months ago
The interviewer is Mike Wallace from 60 Minutes.
Madkre8tor 8 months ago
I think "Brave New World" has an undeservedly bad reputation. The futurist F.M. Esfandiary (a.k.a. FM-2030) made the case in his writings for "Brave New World" as an appropriate model for life in "the future," though he doesn't mention the novel or Huxley by name. Besides, what boy wouldn't like all the easy girls? Everyone belongs to everyone else!
MrAdvancedAtheist 8 months ago
@MrAdvancedAtheist why do you say it has a bad reputation? i think its one of the most significant books of the 20th century. everybody reads it.
selfidentity1 7 months ago
@selfidentity1 I meant that the social model shown in the novel has an undeservedly bad reputation. It also has literary flaws. Huxley could have used Lenina as another interpreter of the story, but instead she comes across as a totally air-headed chick who would fit right into our world in 2011. I mean, seriously, can't you imagine Lenina yakking and texting on her smart phone, taking pointless digital photos and posting nonsense about her life on Twitter and Facebook?
MrAdvancedAtheist 7 months ago
@MrAdvancedAtheist I haven't read the book so I dont know who Lenina is. But I know it refers to stuff like cloning and manipulation of fetus which is scarily premonitory.
selfidentity1 7 months ago
6:40
will4727 9 months ago
How can you not know who this interviewer is? ....WOW
hitman748 10 months ago
@hitman748 Well, why don't you tell us who he is so we are therefore enlightened? Not all of us are born with your TACT and INTELLIGENCE and KNOWLEDGE of famous persons of past eras.
kittycatcarley 10 months ago
@kittycatcarley Mike wallace retard...and he stil works...def. not from a past era. dick....consider yourself enlightened
hitman748 10 months ago
There were and are, always those who "march to a different drummer". They were and are called malcontents, unsuccessful, conspiracy throrists, conspiracy nuts, crazy, bongo, etc. For some reason, people seem to want to destroy or disregard the messengers who try to inform them of the truth. Truth is not as pretty as the lie. The lie can be trimmed and packaged and all loose ends snipped...
olga2415 11 months ago
Too bad he couldn't foresee the part that consumerism would play in his brave new world. This shit happened under our nose. All they have to do is legalize drugs and you have his slave society in any country in the west. Sadly I would be for legalization just so i can legally escape this shit hole country. Give me heroin and Ill do any job you want.
TheWillIamLee87 1 year ago
@TheWillIamLee87 Oh please. People who don't want to use drugs won't use drugs. Whether or not they are legal. I smoke marijuana occasionally and have tried ecstasy and I can safely say it's never something i will do again. I won't even consider doing any other drugs. They cloud a persons' mind and you lose control of your body. The government does not control the people. Maybe it has some sway over the sheep of society, but even the remotely intelligent know not to trust Big Brother too much.
kittycatcarley 10 months ago
@kittycatcarley I actually agree with you that people won't use drugs just because they are legal. I can't really see where what I said has anything to do with that. I did say that mindless consumerism has damaged our my country. I also said that if drugs where legal than Huxley's vision would be compete. Never did I mention that drugs were bad or that people would do drugs because they are legal. I actually like drugs and would like them to be legalized so it would be easier for me to get them
TheWillIamLee87 9 months ago
Imagine if we were able to abolish government, wars and money ^^ We we're exploring space right know. i think we could be hundred of years more advanced.
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 | We?
pwnayr 1 year ago
@pwnayr ya, humans. You know?
texasB666 1 year ago
around 8:00 - the "possible threat" of commercials. decades later: Pringles and growing world obesity. and our parents cherished those products as the positives in democracy, natural free choice, bla bla. worse than having limited choice is to be forced to make a free choice. because if you have to choose between bad food and healthy food you would naturally go for the one with all the added flavors and crap. and most from the two previous generations would actually welcome that. true slaves.
marto1612 1 year ago
Wisdom.
SIMMON52 1 year ago
The masses are really like zombis, brain dead!!!
chessdominos 1 year ago
......pensate a Eaton che gente c'era in quegli anni.....
MrChanakkale 1 year ago
wow, he's an excellent communicator, no stumbling around with words, no stalling for time, no dodging the question, and the questions are much more than superficially probing, they've actually required him to have thought thoroughly about the subject beforehand.
d0d2200 1 year ago
huxley called it
roycesboy 1 year ago
this was like 40 years ago, when it would have been easy to fight this.
charleskafka 1 year ago
Huxley knew because him family were the ones who made up the idea. The vine goes deep through the foundation of everything.
xrockthe40ozx 1 year ago 3
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cont.....which altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory parts), published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of Nazi 'gas chambers,' a 'genocide' of the Jews, or of 'six million' Jewish victims of the war."
Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus,
University of Ulster, December 5, 2005
FreiMarienburg 1 year ago
"I've checked out Churchill's Second World War and the statement is quite correct” not a single mention of Nazi 'gas chambers,' a 'genocide' of the Jews, or of 'six million' Jewish victims of the war. This is astonishing. How can it be explained? Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe is a book of 559 pages; the six volumes of Churchill's Second World War total 4,448 pages; and de Gaulle's three-volume Mémoires de guerre is 2,054 pages. In this mass of writing, .....
FreiMarienburg 1 year ago
he was a visionary man !!
hamzyboy 1 year ago
Pure Genius
KW631 1 year ago
this is how they sold us Obama, and many more before him.
Telefonillo 1 year ago 15
all these things, in 1984 and BNW are happening now, slowly, but surely, and maybe not as explicitly, but they are :( this chap is a dude and knows exactly whate hes talking about.. better start looking out for white vans... ;)
MertonSmurf 1 year ago
Wow, that's a young Mike Wallace.
CptMystery 2 years ago
Genius indeed. i like the interviewer in this also. He seems intelligent and aware. These days, many interviewers would be automatons who would seek to ridicule and belittle his arguments rather let him speak and express his enlightening comments
chrisaspinall 2 years ago 23
I could not agree more with you. Nowadays serious and intelligent discussions and interviews are unpopular.
If it's not sensational it doesn't exist.
tarfin 2 years ago 10
@tarfin Mike Wallace BEFORE the NWO bought him....
hitman748 10 months ago
@chrisaspinall not to mention most people in the world would turn this off after 30 seconds. people dont care to learn, they have been taught that intelligence is boring. they will switch over to mtv where they are not required to THINK
crownvic1776 1 year ago
@chrisaspinall
sounds like Mike Wallace
hihats 1 year ago
@chrisaspinall I totally agree with you : 1.A Genius mind. Is impressive to have the percetion where the world will be in 50 years especially when ourselves living it we can't feel the vigilance and slavory of their "democracy".
2. The interviewer indeed is quite open minded comparing the idiots we see these days
vasili5 1 year ago
Wow - a clear and sharp mind that is relevant today, he just debased any political campaign in the western nations and the rest of the world as being run on the basis of untruth or popular appeal like a prophet. He is on my list for the next to read more of after I get better acquainted JW Goethe - Faust did fascinate me first time I read it
Loke2001 1 year ago
@chrisaspinall True that. Just look at Bill O'Reilly...
goatnuts8288 1 year ago
A peek at the beginnings of the matrix Huxley's mind was so perceptive. Also see Adam Curtis' " The Century of Self". a very detailed documentary of the path.
fossilman2 2 years ago
Obama at 3.50??
antoconno 2 years ago
Yeah, it's Obama, but it's also every president we have had in a long time. Our elections have been reduced to popularity contests. Don't you remember the KEY question of the 2000 race- who would you rather have a beer with?
Viva Montaigne!
tristramshandy3 2 years ago
when i turn on the tv and see tiger woods scandal,paris hilton,hannah montana and twilight...
all i can think is that our worlds is not so different from what he predicted
masondarko 2 years ago 4
Mr. Huxley warned us.....even the Bible warned us.....about 'enemies' masquerading themselves as 'angels of light'.....
eli4777 2 years ago 8
Thank you for putting up this interview. Very valid thoughts about Democracy.
The power to persuade, methods of violence,drugs,advertisement, all these issues in a new free world is very much part of our daily life.
lialammas 2 years ago 5
He was a genius. The human race lost two outstanding political visionaries on 22 Nov 1963!
psychodelicfungi 2 years ago
3:22 Beautiful!
TheCottonTop 2 years ago
The irony is that this book was required reading when I was in school....
PsilocybinNinja 2 years ago 3
Brilliant man
hiopppe 2 years ago
wow... he knows what the fuck he is talking about..
slavery never left, but we just THINK it's gone.. we only believe that we're free but we're obviously mistaken
larry89 2 years ago 26
A slavery people accept as Happiness-Consumerisim
Lazybate 2 years ago 2
but where's part two?
iggypot 2 years ago
wow...what an eye opener....a coached dictator with a good personality...hmmm
KARStarla 2 years ago
perrenial eloquence
iggypot 2 years ago
"Information is infectious. .... SNEEZE!"
tarfin 2 years ago
@tarfin iagree , who quetted that ? Hexley ?
andre66688 7 months ago
5*****
AVIMOAS1 3 years ago