Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)

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Recommends smilbandit · 2019-12 · on “Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction”

Aldous's pill popping from Brave New World isn't as interesting as what he said in his interview with Mike Wallace, [this video]

Recommends Towaway69 · 2025-12 · on “Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape”

Vonnegut is good but I think (Aldous) Huxley had more to say, at least that resonated more with me. I recently discovered this 1958 interview of Huxley[1]: > This is the force which in general terms can be called overpopulation, the mounting pressure of population pressing upon existing resources. …This, of course, is an extraordinary thing; something is happening which has never happened in the world's history before. I mean, let's just take a simple fact that between the time of birth of Christ and the landing of the Mayflower, the population of the earth doubled. It rose from two hundred and fifty million to probably five hundred million. Today, the population of the earth is rising at su

Cites badmadrad · 2020-08 · on “Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias”

Not just Facebook but Twitter and social media as whole. We are are all voluntarily choosing to support technology that beams us deception, mistruths, and lies of omission at all times. Worse, we like it because of our own vanity. Aldous Huxley warned about a society where people voluntarily enter into a totalitarian society because they are both easily deceived and receive cheap instant gratification from those in control. Seems like we are about here. Aldous Huxley: [this video]