Aldous Huxley: experience
Gumbo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
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The Late Movies: Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation Topics
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Looking to spice up your holiday conversations? Here are a few clips that should help you impress your dinner mates this Thanksgiving. Want to impress your family and friends? Tell them about a new type of concrete that will prevent cracking by using bacteria. That’s right, bio-concrete. It’s alive. When Aldous Huxley wrote [...]
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Will We Drown In a Sea of Insidious Pleasures?
Library Grape (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Gherald highlighted a great graphic illustration comparison of the different kinds of dystopias* envisioned by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. I've always found Huxley's formulation more compelling. Orwell's vision is scary, to be sure, but I've always felt that civilization will be ultimately undone not by a nefarious top-down neo-communist 1984 construct but rather an insidious,...
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He's Our President
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
If you've been an American for more than 60 seconds, then you don't need me or anyone else to tell you what happened on November 22, 1963. It wasn't just the day Aldous Huxley died. Many, many Americans who were alive when President Kennedy was shot in Dallas have also since passed. Fewer and fewer Americans remain alive, people who were around and felt the jarring, world-shaking impact...
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He's Our President
Welcome Back to Pottersville (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
If you've been an American for more than 60 seconds, then you don't need me or anyone else to tell you what happened on November 22, 1963. It wasn't just the day Aldous Huxley died. Many, many Americans who were alive when President Kennedy was shot in Dallas have also since passed. Fewer and fewer Americans remain alive, people who were around and felt the jarring, world-shaking impact...
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Palin = Soma
GDAEman (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Soma is the name of the fictional drug featured in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Soma was a pleasure drug promoted by the "government" to keep the masses distracted. Brutal authoritarian methods were not needed to control the people in Huxley's authoritarian world, because the masses were busy self-medicating with soma, among other diversions. Palin = Soma. Matt Taibbi...