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Jan 26, 2023 6:08 PM CSTdid Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
LeeCharming
LeeCharmingLeeCharmingCardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, UK537 Threads 273 Polls 6,941 Posts

did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?(Vote Below)

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here is an interview with Aldous Huxley...discussing the dangers of the west becoming dictatorships and how propaganda works
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Jan 26, 2023 6:09 PM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
LeeCharming
LeeCharmingLeeCharmingCardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales UK537 Threads 273 Polls 6,941 Posts
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Jan 26, 2023 6:13 PM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
LeeCharming
LeeCharmingLeeCharmingCardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales UK537 Threads 273 Polls 6,941 Posts
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Jan 26, 2023 6:14 PM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
LeeCharming
LeeCharmingLeeCharmingCardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales UK537 Threads 273 Polls 6,941 Posts
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Jan 26, 2023 6:46 PM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
LeeCharming
LeeCharmingLeeCharmingCardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales UK537 Threads 273 Polls 6,941 Posts

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Jan 26, 2023 7:58 PM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
I’m impressed how Huxely was able to elucidate and validate his presumed vision of where things are headed today. cheers
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Jan 26, 2023 8:05 PM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
galrads: I’m impressed how Huxely was able to elucidate and validate his presumed vision of where things are headed today.
I am surprised he did not name NATO as being responsible for getting us all killed. Heck, I never knew Portugal has tank and that they are sending some of them to Ukraine along with USA’s, Germany’s and Polands tanks. smh
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Jan 27, 2023 1:17 AM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
Tiger_Moth
Tiger_MothTiger_MothYeovil, Somerset, England UK23 Threads 2,833 Posts
He was a pacifist denied citizenship in the U.S because of his views. He died on the same day as J.F.K.

Did you know that he taught George Orwell?
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Jan 27, 2023 3:57 AM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
ChesneyChrist
ChesneyChristChesneyChristManchester, Greater Manchester, England UK7,144 Posts
Yes to the world around us, no to the people in this world. On the one hand the world is full of distraction a surplus of enjoyment, but on the other hand people are not very happy nor are they trusting. Having gorged on pleasure I don't see a people full of pleasure, but a people that would much rather be contrarian/different/interesting than happy per se. Distraction abounds but it is the yearning for recognition that sets the tone today.
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Jan 27, 2023 4:42 AM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
ChesneyChrist
ChesneyChristChesneyChristManchester, Greater Manchester, England UK7,144 Posts
And if nothing else brave new world is kinda on its way out with the war in Ukraine and today's gas prices. A world government has not been this far away since before 1945. 1945 to 2008 was the closest we came to brave new world so far, that cradle to grave generation that never had it so good and saw itself as kinda the end of history.

Today it's high gas prices and global instability, not a world government but a world of the Russians and the Chinese making their mark in a geopolitical landscape much more like 1984 than brave new world. Not a world government but two or three big power combines and a situation for the average man that becomes more difficult year after year.
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Jan 27, 2023 5:00 AM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
ChesneyChrist
ChesneyChristChesneyChristManchester, Greater Manchester, England UK7,144 Posts
Brave new world, 1984, WALL-E. The world today is all and none of these things. Jury's out on trashing the planet but we look like the people from WALL-E. Not really happy but gorged on pleasure so much that we must float around on a giant mattress having lost the use of our legs.
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Feb 2, 2023 11:23 AM CST did Aldous Huxley...predict the future/present?
LeeCharming
LeeCharmingLeeCharmingCardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales UK537 Threads 273 Polls 6,941 Posts
wow
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