Demokratie … Schutz "Eine wirklich effiziente totalitäre Staatsform wäre eine, in der die allmächtige Exekutive einer politischen Bosheit eine Bevölkerung von Sklaven kontrolliert, die nicht gezwungen werden muss, weil sie ihre Knechtschaft lieben." Aldous #Huxley INTJ RIP Sir, Schöne neue Welt

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Second-hand copies of The Theory of #Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions from The University of Chicago Press; An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the #Huxley Family from Allen Lane (sans dustjacket); and Mind Over Magma: The Story of #IgneousPetrology from @princetonupress #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #EarthSciences #Geology

Read Aldous Huxley, complete essays, volume IV, 1936-1938 and understand what happens to this world (again) going to war because of robber barons' capitalism combined with fascism and eugenics theories.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30569.Complete_Essays_Vol_IV

loving your #oppression: Tristan Harris on #Orwell versus #Huxley on Joe Rogan (!!!)

https://youtu.be/BYUTVjfMmcI?si=N4w11uqhAeKTcxmW

»Zum Einschlafen Aphasie und Aurora Borealis: Aldous Huxley las im Urlaub die ›Encyclopedia Britannica‹, machte aber auch Beobachtungen vor Ort. Seine Reiseberichte ›Along the Road‹ erscheinen nun erstmals auf Deutsch.«

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/belletristik/aldous-huxleys-reiseberichte-along-the-road-110289711.html #Huxley

#ThreeGoodThings

I bought 2 #books, actual , honest-to-god, hardback, paper page, physical books.

I bought them from an actual book shop.

The smell of books.

George #Orwell:
Animal Farm, and 1984, in case you were wondering.

I bought them because
A . They are damn fine books &
B. I want to have them in case government decides they should be removed from sight.

More will follow, when I locate a nice edition the next one will be Aldus #Huxley's Brave New World

While researchers noted the incoherent ramblings of patients undergoing LSD treatment, Huxley used hallucinogenic drug experiences as the basis for an articulate philosophical exploration.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-aldous-huxley-opened-the-doors-of-perception

Collage de lunes
El amor ahuyenta el miedo y, recíprocamente el miedo ahuyenta al amor. Y no sólo al amor el miedo expulsa; también a la inteligencia, la bondad, todo pensamiento de belleza y verdad, y sólo queda la desesperación muda; y al final, el miedo llega a expulsar del hombre la humanidad misma.
Aldous Huxley

#ThoughtProvoker

#Newspeak IS our #UbiquitousLanguage for #DDD of Society in 2025. Almost!

Next time when #Orwell and #Huxley come up in #discourse remember:

We live in #dystopia NOW!
Unseen by our #DistractionEconomy blindfolds.

We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee #RootCause of #ClimateChange temperature rise:

#Hypercapitalism

Vice has free reign as #truth is destroyed.

We MUST be #Plainspeaking
We MUST use #CommonSense
We MUST restore #Reality

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

— Aldous Huxley

The Huxley has its big, red, festive bow on once more.

Establishing a new department to manage “government efficiency” is such a 1984 concept. Remember the Ministry of Peace?

There is a debate whether Orwell or Huxley more accurately predicted the future. For a while Huxley seemed to be winning. But this might be the most Orwellian concept of my lifetime.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4989117-musks-bold-plans-for-department-of-government-efficiency-face-roadblocks/

#Florida verbannt das #TagebuchDerAnneFrank aus allen Schulbüchereien und öffentlichen Bibliotheken - spätestens jetzt sollte jedem klar sein, wo die Reise hingeht. #MAGA Nachtrag: Aldous #Huxley|s #SchöneNeueWelt gehört auch dazu, was ziemlich ironisch ist

LOL !
#Books #Dystopian #Orwell #Huxley #BraveNewWorld #NineteenEightyFour #Farenheit451 #RayBradbury #HandMaidTale #MargaretAtwood

George Orwell 的 1984 與 Aldous Huxley 的 Brave New World

前幾天看到「Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009) (archive.org)」這則，原文很久前就下架了，所以指到的是 Internet Archive 上的版本：「Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2024/10/04/12013/george-orwell-%e7%9a%84-1984-%e8%88%87-aldous-huxley-%e7%9a%84-brave-new-world/

#Book #Murmuring #Recreation #Social #1984 #aldous #book #brave #comparison #dystopian #eighty #four #george #huxley #new #nineteen #novel #orwell #world

Julian Huxley and the Invention of the Public Scientist.
Through the life of Julian Huxley Jim Al-Khalili explores the idea of the public scientist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b010y1x6
#Huxley #science #PublicScience

The striking predictions of Huxley versus Orwell…

https://otpok.com/2014/01/03/amusing-ourselves-to-death