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Nov. 21, 2024 "Real History" with Melissa (Podcast): "Ep. 93 - "Brave New World"
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--{ "Ep. 93 - "Brave New World"}-- Why is Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", written in 1931 and published in 1932, still significant today? - 1958 Mike Wallace interview with Huxley - The 1962 Berkeley speech. - What are some ways in which Aldous Huxley's writing might have been shaped by family breeding, class, and education? - Huxley's use of LSD and mescalin. - What are some of the downsides of the intensive "inbreeding" in the upper classes? - "Everyone belongs to everyone else." - Some letters that Aldous wrote his brother Julian (first president of UNESCO, birth control, coined term "transhumanism") - What are some ideas that Huxley conveys about the individual in Brave New World? - The technologies that exist to rewire and control us. - Perpetual childhood. "Ending is better than mending." - The importance of standardized behavior and stability in a Utopian system. - Hallucinogenic drugs: can they deliver a genuine spiritual experience? - Why do the billionaire philanthropists always have the same concerns? Overpopulation, birth control, saving the Earth. What book is Nick Heys covering right now on his channel Heys Reviews?
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