The Hidden Huxley

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[cosmicpilgrim]

Morris Berman, an American intellectual, advocates new secular culture to form itself against our zeitgeist. It won't work but, but it's a nice idea. Also, I have concerns about aspects of transhumanism. In some ways it mirrors Huxley's fictional world. It is very likely the brave new world transhumanists advocate will be more disfunctional than our present chaos. Long and short - I have no ideas what to do. Hope is beginning to seem more and more like delusion.

[denito9474]

Yes, please make a vid on transhumanism, you seem to have a very level headed appraisal of things.

[Birdinthehand1000]

@cosmicpilgrim so whats taken place since you wrote this

[7sevo7]

I was looking for more analysis of quantum mechanics.

Why would someone post some retarded , vulgar comments. you have nothing intelligent to say ?

[herpesstud]

@zombiology i know i can't stand it. he's SOOO pretty i wanna lick his bum and have unprotected interracial butt sex with him. thanks and god bless.

[Zombiology]

UGH YOU'RE SO CUTE

[seb538835]

The ambiguity of the book seems like the whole point of it. Huxley soudns undecided. That's why it's a classic.

[ericpage420]

Now see,I had heard that"Brave New World"was the result of a disagreement with H.G.Wells over the idea of eugenics.

I'm not sure how much truth there is in it,but that is one of the stories I've heard.

[jdcremin]

If there was such a thing as a nominal happiness scale I beleive it would show that people are becoming less happy as technological society advances. This is why the "getting back to nature" people have a valid argument. We are not living in nature anymore - we do what we can to feel like we are though - for example exercise,competition,hunting,s­ocial groups - these are surrogates for true living. Life's purpose is to live - yet we are not allowed to realize this supreme goal.

[Ignare]

There's some research on the subject of "happiness". Basically, if I remember well, they ask a lot of people to rank on a scale of one to ten if they are happy and then a buch of question on their lifestyle. Then they try to find significant correlation. Not suprisingly happy people often exercise, like their work and have a healthy social bond with a small core of people. That's the servitude I want if you ask me.

[cosmanthony21]

im afraid i am a psychopath...what am i to do?

[BradOFarrell]

Re (description): In Slaughterhouse-five, Vonnegut himself is a character, and at one point he says he thinks of a good epitaph for the protagonist and himself (as a real person) and on the next page is a tomb stone that says "Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts," but later in life, he changed his epitaph (to "THE ONLY PROOF / HE NEEDED / FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD /WAS MUSIC") which robs that original epitaph of it's poignance.