Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution (1962)

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Here's a link to the actual interview itself. It's one and a half hours long, so pretty long.

I love Huxley's forward to Jiddu Kirshnamurthi's (who was major influence on Huxley) book. http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...

Perhaps nowadays it is the iphone or android we use to self administer, no expensive drugs required.

Interesting idea. Perhaps we are already living in a version of BNW, with media and constant advertisements serving the role of sleep-learning.

Yes, that is one premise of BNW, constant engagement and thus constant and immediate satisfaction is one purpose of the media, but media as a form of propaganda is an age-old tactic.

The widespread reach of modern media just makes it easier to spread any given point of view, with the chance going to the highest/most powerful bidder.

Would say that the filter bubble is probably as significant, if not more so, than ads (which have been around a long time).

Taking apart this programming:

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2318856/pg1

>And the same way with various technological advances now, I mean we need to think about the problems with automation and more profoundly the problems, which may arise with these new techniques, which may contribute to this ultimate revolution. Our business is to be aware of what is happening, and then to use our imagination to see what might happen, how this might be abused, and then if possible to see that the enormous powers which we now possess thanks to these scientific and technological advances to be used for the benefit of human beings and not for their degradation.

Thank You

NO! Thank YOU, mr. Huxley.

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