Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley: Brave New World ==

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxDNmrJ65A

This 3-hour TV adaptation of the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel is set 600 >>>> years in the future. In this "well- ordered" society, the citizens are >>>> required to take mind-controlling drugs, sex without love is compulsory, and >>>> test-tube babies are commonplace because of a ban on pregnancy. Keir Dullea >>>> heads the cast as Thomas Grahmbell, "director of hatcheries". Not everybody >>>> is satisfied with society's lack of humanity and feeling; the loudest >>>> dissidents are free-thinking poet Heimholtz Watson (Dick Anthony Williams) >>>> and brilliant oddball Bernard Marx (Bud Cort). An injection of new "old" >>>> ideas are brought in by "primitive" John Savage (Kristoffer Tabori), who >>>> lives on an Indian reservation which still honors 20th century values. >>>> Meanwhile, Linda Lysenko (Julie Cobb) becomes a natural mother--and in so >>>> doing becomes a criminal. In keeping with the style of the original book, >>>> the script's newly-minted characters are given names of pop-culture icons >>>> (Disney, Maoina, Stalina, and so on). Brave New World was first telecast >>>> March 7, 1980.

Aldous Huxley Predicts in 1950 What the World Will Look Like in the Year 2000 https://t.co/03Fhf3EYGm (via Open Culture)

Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley (Stories) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39378

The Burning Wheel https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47912 and

The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24364

A Virgin Heart: A Novel by Remy de Gourmont (tr. A. Huxley) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44384

"The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma." ―Mustapha Mond, the World Controller of Western Europe from BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society—and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy, unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have been anesthetized and private attachments are considered obscene. Only Bernard Marx is discontented, developing an unnatural desire for solitude and a distaste for compulsory promiscuity. When he brings back a young man from one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old unenlightened ways still continue, he unleashes a dramatic clash of cultures that will force him to consider whether freedom, dignity, and individuality are worth suffering for. Aldous Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of a future of mechanical efficiency and engineered harmony has been enormously influential for generations, and is as provocative, powerful, and riveting as when it was first published in 1932. READ an excerpt from the introduction here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com ... /…/brave-new-world-by-ald…/#