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"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley
Interview by Mike Wallace on May 18, 1958, from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
"This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. Mr. Huxley wrote a Brave New World, a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us." - Mike Wallace
In this remarkable interview, Huxley foretells a future when telegenic presidential hopefuls use television to rise to power, technology takes over, drugs grab hold, and frightful dictatorships rule us all.
Enjoy the journey and tell us in the comments whether he was right.
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"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley
Interview by Mike Wallace on May 18, 1958, from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
"This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. Mr. Huxley wrote a Brave New World, a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us." - Mike Wallace
In this remarkable interview, Huxley foretells a future when telegenic presidential hopefuls use television to rise to power, technology takes over, drugs grab hold, and frightful dictatorships rule us all.
Enjoy the journey and tell us in the comments whether he was right.
Learn more about Aldous Huxley, including his connections with The Doors and Carl Sagan, on our website:
blankonblank.org/aldous-huxley
Subscribe for new episodes every other Tuesday... it's free:
bit.ly/1TO2vCL
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Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows
youtube.com/watch?v=Nrgs5ss0dv8
Patti Smith in 1976 on Getting Bleeped
youtube.com/watch?v=DKbCc0XKj8A
Frank Zappa in 1971 on Fads
youtube.com/watch?v=n5WEU30Iods
Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
youtube.com/watch?v=SyrDfCSZJmI
Martin Scorsese on Framing
youtube.com/watch?v=QGyYOQbKDIQ
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
youtube.com/watch?v=u9WHs49nlHk
David Bowie on Stardust
youtube.com/watch?v=lFIDXXDsxAo
Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo
youtube.com/watch?v=Jcd9BS2Ty_M
Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys
youtube.com/watch?v=DzWMHIiGgWU
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David Gerlach
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Patrick Smith
PRODUCER
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"Pathways" Stephen James Root
"Das Funtfe Streichquartett" Viera Janarcekova
"Frozen Wonder" Marc Frederick Teitler
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