Brave New World

And everybody knew that everybody, you know, you and I were raised reading Orwell and Alex Huxley and, you know, Robert Heinlein and Alex Anderson, and all of these other books that were part of classical literature that was taught in every American classroom.

and then you have aldous huxley who wrote brave new world in 32 his brother Julian Huxley was the head of the world eugenics society when that got a bad name for world war ii they changed the world transhumanist society he was the director general of unesco really ran the u.n and his brother before he died gave that famous berkeley speech it's an hour long and i've read his book brave new world revisited that's non-fiction everybody should read it and he says no no no the world's not gonna be like orwell with the swat teams

Every book we read in high school, college, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, 1980, or Animal Farm, like The Giver, which we read in middle school.

Brave New World by Huxley, insensitivity, nudity, racism,

Brave New World by Huxley, insensitivity, nudity, racism,

Brave New World by Huxley, insensitivity, nudity, racism,

Brave New World by Huxley, insensitivity, nudity, racism, To Kill a Mockingbird, like we mentioned, Harper Lee's classic because of offensive language and racism.

Another book that I would like to recommend is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which I think is maybe the best science fiction book of the 20th century, certainly the most prophetic, which also he wrote it in the 1930s, against the backdrop of the rise of fascism and communism and so forth, but he foresaw that maybe the most effective way and even the most dangerous way to control human beings is not by sheer brute force and fear and terror like in Orwell's 1984, but actually if you work with the pleasure principle and with human greed and desire, you can get further than if you just try to crush people and terrorize them all the time.

Brave New World was Plato's an update of Plato's Republic then 1984 was also an update of the allegory of the cave.

Huxley is more all about biology, isn't it? It's years since I read Brave New World.

if you read, if you ever listen to like the brave new world or read it out as Huxley is like a book about the future.

I think enhancements, I think rich people buying better jeans for their kids than poor people is a horror that we have to avoid just like in Brave New World or Gattaca and I think editing out the diversity of our species.

I think enhancements, I think rich people buying better genes for their kids than poor people is a horror that we have to avoid just like in Brave New World or Gattaca.

Brave New World and Ireland, right?

Brave New World is the more famous of the two.

Brave New World, Brave New World, it's really up there with 1984 in terms of its notoriety. It is one of the quintessential dystopias.

It's set several hundred years into the future.

Brave New World, it's written before Huxley had psychedelics. It was like his version of drug use is so different in that book, it's more like a pacifying drug.

I read Brave New World in high school, but I have not read Ireland.

It is like one of the quintessential dystopias.

They say things like by Ford's name and that kind of thing, you know?

They don't do like genetic, um, like coding, whatever. They just, they do a chemical concoctions in those sort of test tubes.

It is really interesting that that, he changes what drugs do in his books. After he starts doing them.

It is the more famous of the two. I don't think a lot of people have heard of Ireland compared to Brave New World. Because I mean, Brave New World is like... I read Brave New World in high school, but I have not read Ireland.

And it's like, it really says a lot about society that we read about the dystopias, but not the utopias.

But anyway, Brave New World, Brave New World, it's really up there with 1984 in terms of its notoriety. It is one of the quintessential dystopias.

It's set several hundred years into the future. Unlike 1984, which took place several decades ago, Brave New World was set in 2540 CE. So yeah, we're several hundred years Star Trek times.

But however, in the book, it isn't called 2550 CE. It's called 632 AF. AF standing for after Ford, because in this world, and I'm sure we'll get into this a bit, Henry Ford, the assembly line guy, the Model T guy, he is basically God. He is the God of their world, you know?

It is the more famous of the two. I don't think a lot of people have heard of Ireland compared to Brave New World.

It is like one of the quintessential dystopias.

They say things like by Ford's name and that kind of thing, you know?

It is like kind of like what's happening today, you know, in terms of the Greek alphabet.

And like they are literally conditioned, you know? So like in the factory, in the baby making factory, which is in this case, literal and not a euphemism for the womb.

Aldous Huxley in 1948 cited research that suggested an inverse correlation between intelligence and fertility.

Basically, Huxley was pointing out that like intelligent people have less children and he called for a world population policy.

We're entering into a brave new world as Albus Huxley would write back in the 1950s.

And it's not one that we should delight in or celebrate.

This month's book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

It is impossible to read Brave New World and not see the entire leftist agenda implemented in action.

One of the big questions about Brave New World is what exactly would the left oppose about that Brave New World these days?

This month's book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It is impossible to read Brave New World and not see the entire leftist agenda implemented in action.

One of the big questions about Brave New World is what exactly would the left oppose about that Brave New World these days?

Next month's book is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. My notes for it are available right now.

But he said alongside that vision, there's this other dystopian vision, the technology, which is the eldest Huxley vision of Brave New World in which control is not established by banning books but by creating a world of so much amusing ourselves to death and the world.

Hollywood is doing an adaptation of one of my favorite books of all time Brave New World... they're making a dystopian series that looks exactly the same, with the same outfits and wardrobe, and it completely misses the subtle, creepy element that pervades every page of the book.

The book is all about entertainment being used as a means to control the masses, make them passive and accepting - exactly what Hollywood is doing, so the adaptation of Brave New World is ironic because the novel warned us about this very Hollywood behavior.

This type of recording, playing the recording back to the patient over and over again sounds something like the conditioning technique in The Brave New World.

sounds something like the conditioning technique in The Brave New World.

Well, I've read Brave New World too. Not the script of the new Captain America movie. But that kind of gives you the other half of the picture where we're just... You know, we're dopamine freaks. We're looking for our next high and just going day to day. You know, looking for Soma.

Well, in the book Brave New World, I think they called it talkies or whatever. But like in the future, everybody's going to be on somas. And the content that they would watch was basically like pornography with explosions, like basically out of the movie Idiocracy.

Two of the great dystopian works of the 20th century were Huxley's Brave New World which is actually this what you're just describing and the other of course is Orwell and interestingly it's you know if at that time I thought we may go this way or we may go that way but it never occurred to me that we would actually go both ways so we're now getting a hybrid of Huxley and Orwell so Orwell says that the police state is a boot stamping on a human face right and we have some of that and this is what I do in the film I want the ordinary citizen to see that because Americans have a great difficulty getting their heads around the fact that that could happen here but the Huxley part of it is another way a police state lulls a citizen into sort of complacency it's like we'll give you manufactured experience now manufactured experience is not real experience in the sense that it's not the real thing I mean living your life with a real woman and going through all that has a texture and complexity that an E girl friend or even a porn video cannot supply but Tim's point is what if you don't know that what if you think that this porn experience is actually sexual experience this is romantic experience I've got a girlfriend why would I want a real one this one never complains this is what's going on you're forgetting one name as well or just or well or Huxley.

You'll own nothing. You'll have no privacy, but you'll be happy. I mean, that dates back to the 1960s when you had Aldous Huxley saying, basically, they'll put you in a position where you ought not be happy, but you'll be made happy when they literally are releasing dopamine. So you're sitting there on like a and, you know, this is the 1960s version, but you're sitting there on an assembly line. You should be like miserable. Like, God, this is awful. But instead, you're like, this is the best thing I've ever. This is the most fun I've ever had is putting together these car parts because they're literally activating the pleasure center of your brain as you're doing this.

Have you read Huxley's Brave New World? No. I'm vaguely familiar with it. A lot of people think that we are in this Orwellian 1984, but we are 100% in Brave New World.

But essentially in Brave New World, it's a dystopian future where it's not this 1984 where everyone's in darkness and it's new speak and whatever. It's this thing that everybody loves being a part of because essentially everyone in the future is a clone.

Michael and I today did a book podcast on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and not fitting in, I have to say particularly after discussing that this afternoon, not fitting in maybe about as high a compliment as one can give to an individual in this brave new world who dares think for himself.

It features prominently in Brave New World, which is what so happens we were discussing.

To Han, the far more accurate literary example of a dystopian future that resembles the world we're in is not Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's 1932 book called Brave New World.

It's a drug in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

And now we are on the cusp of a new world that is both brave to quote Aldous Huxley and strange.

and of course Brave New World in 1984.