Leave aside the fact that we have far fewer humans of his stature in 2024 available for interviews - in any field. This is how a discussion/interview should be. Ask questions, probe slightly, but ultimately allow the guest to expand at their leisure. No pressure, no facile BS, no interruptions, no media company or societal agenda to push on people. Oh what we have lost in the last few decades.

@ThomasBusby

4 ай бұрын

I disagree. We probably have many. They just haven't been selected yet. It becomes clear who the greats are in retrospect. Many of the most famous people of earlier eras are forgotten.

@theram4320

4 ай бұрын

@@ThomasBusby I take your point, and there is probably some truth in it. However, since the 1970s (at least) Western education and thought has become diluted, and technology is increasingly augmenting or replacing human thought and endeavour. That must have an impact.

@ThomasBusby

4 ай бұрын

@@theram4320 lol, Aldous is, in this video, making the same point 60 years ago in an era that you agree had great thinkers

@tachikomakusanagi3744

4 күн бұрын

@@ThomasBusby I have to disagree with your disagreement on this point - you correctly state that the great intellects are only apparent in retrospect, but I must argue that this retrospect is a moving window, the great thinkers from a younger generation take time to emerge indeed, but where are the ones from the periods prior who should have arisen by now? I think the OP's point is valid, a gap is visible and we are lacking the set of great thinkers and debaters who should be intriguing us in current popular discourse. I believe this is a cultural issue, and one in fact touched upon in this very interview about man being shaped by technology. We are witnessing the effects of this very idea.

Brave New World has affected me the in way a lot of people talk about 1984. This is fabulous, thank you

@zazawitch

2 ай бұрын

Me too. I like both but BNW has so much more depth and I’m just in love with it. Each time I read it I find a new meaning. It’s practically my bible lol

@rxw5520

17 күн бұрын

It’s funny both are happening in different ways. Huxley had the distraction and brain washing and drug aspect right on, and Orwell had the govt surveillance and rewriting history to undermine culture right on.

Amazing how good Huxley was at predicting the future.

@Blkboyinspired

6 ай бұрын

It’s almost as if his family weren’t the ones who created such science and engineering models in cognitive psychology. Their eugenics movement executed this very strategy

@Nodadj

6 ай бұрын

He knew everything since his brother Julian and his family had information on what was the goal for globalist agenda. Read about his brother Julian and the U.N Julian Huxley was dedicated to finding the way to a better life and to the wider access of all mankind to such a life. After World War II, when the United Nations was set up, Huxley was appointed the first Director-General of UNESCO, the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Here he was able to promote world-wide education, population control and conservation of nature. He became the first President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (now known as Humanists International) in 1952, and of the British Humanist Association (now known as Humanists UK) in 1963. He saw Humanism as a replacement ‘religion’, and as such represented an important strand in post-war humanist thought. In a speech given to a conference in 1965 he spoke of the need for “a religiously and socially effective system of humanism.” And in his book Religion Without Revelation, he wrote: “What the sciences discover about the natural world and about the origins, nature and destiny of man is the truth for religion. There is no other kind of valid knowledge. This natural knowledge, organized and applied to human fulfilment, is the basis of the new and permanent religion.” The book ends with the concept of “transhumanism”- “man remaining man, but transcending himself by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature”.

@alienvampirebusterswhoyoug8257

5 ай бұрын

Aliens have contacted these governments for 100s of years this is the frogs getting boiled in slowly warming water effect soon it will be too late

@Johnconno

4 ай бұрын

Hardly.

@jellymulder

4 ай бұрын

Exactly.

Are there great men like these anymore? So much wisdom.

@andydixon2980

9 ай бұрын

I doubt it.

@johninjersey

8 ай бұрын

Today we have the very stable genus Trump

@jessicamedwedew7167

6 ай бұрын

Of course, but a lot are shut down for being open about it.

@Theqpom

6 ай бұрын

Dr Jordan Peterson has several nominations ❤

@samdaviesaviationandfootba2602

5 ай бұрын

NAOM CHOMSKY.......ROBERT WINSTON.......AND HOPEFULLY MORE

Am reminded of the old newspaper cartoon of a child watching a live broadcast, on TV, of a sunset. Behind the child is a window, from which we can see the actual sunset.

His final book, The Island, is far more important.

@dream_machine812

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. I was searching for the book he was referring to at the end of the video

@normalguycap

10 ай бұрын

@@dream_machine812 You're welcome.

@boswollox4636

Ай бұрын

Attention! Attention!

At the 2:50 mark he mentioned jacques ellul he was a French philosopher and sociologist who wrote the best book on propaganda is a must read.

If humanity gets 1 of these individuals every 100 years, then I still have hope in the future.

This was a most prescient discourse in 1961. I am thinking in terms of AI threatening everything that used to be social dynamics. Huxley had foreseen this, without even knowing the very details of it. What a man!

@mayorofbonifacio

6 күн бұрын

Spot on!

He namedrops Ellul, that would be Jacques Ellul, who wrote famous books about propaganda and susceptibillty to it, for those wot want to know more.

@Kitsune-kun663

9 ай бұрын

The Technological Society is great too

@psst...heyyou6508

8 ай бұрын

He wrote about so much more

@wertnevis7319

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

@rickraymo1319

23 күн бұрын

After having read his works multiple times, this was enjoyable. I needed to hear his brain try to wriggle around the interviewers planned fiasco. What a fellow.

Thanks, Mr. H, and thanks for uploading.👍👍👍

I love how the interviewer here seems to just sit back and acknowledge he was in the presence of a genius. 3:59, he knows it then.

SO TRUE in the past and present! Man is a victim of our own inventions and technologies.

This is amaaaaazing

Dude this wise man was right on 62 years later! #30seconds #whurlwind 🌀

I read both 1984 and BNW when I was around 14 and have been oscillating between which was more likely to come into being ever since.

@andyroobrick-a-brack9355

2 ай бұрын

I think Huxkey's criticisms are far more relevant IMO, because it tackles the very foundation of western values. That sort of radical rethinking is what we need to keep society moving in a way that doesn't oppress people, that doesn't turn man into a machine.

What a joy, I feel as if I'm in his company,,, an absolute, and what I believe as a beautiful person,

Thanks

Great Aldus Huxley - was in mind only as a name -never had any idea about his appearance ...several times I had taken his great book 'Time must have a stop ' - but never opened it ...and now I have seen this great thinker 'with my own eyes ' ...but do not know what he 'thinks ' ....and besides , I would imagine him as chewing betel nuts and leaf while talking ....grateful to see Aldus Huxley ...about whom I will not know much ...

@senecaknowledge2274

9 ай бұрын

What utter nonsense

@sarojinichaudhury179

9 ай бұрын

@@senecaknowledge2274 The great Aldus Huxley looks (to me ) in the interview as if he is chewing betel nuts - which is very popular in many places of India .

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of heroes or characters around anymore, people are very docile and homogenised seemingly.

@SouthernFryd

4 ай бұрын

"Happy in their servitude." Or, in Klaus schwabs and others words..."you will own nothing and be happy about it." Covid controls and manipulation was the great "reset" that has expanded all of this.

Go read ISLAND. It’s the last book he wrote before he died. It’s also his antithesis to BRAVE NEW WORLD. It’s also better.

Sense, of, ? ....rather than being in control of, !!!. This is true today.

This man was ahead of his time

@juvenalhahne7750

Ай бұрын

Parem de insistir nesse cliche: nunca ninguém esteve a frente de seu tempo: todos sempre vivemos no nosso presente. Além do que, a bomba atômica já existia e fora lançada em Hiroshima e Nagazaqui. A diferença de Huxlei estava apenas em não seguir a manada. Ele via o que continuamos não querendo ver...

Ancient Proverb: 'Necessity is the mother of invention' , 21st Century Proverb 'Greed is the mother of invention and all other useless crap'

4:35 omfg 😢

If he only knew how ahead of his time he really was.

a warning against ai

Thank God Jonathon Ross or Graham Norton weren't the interviewers back then.

@tocaat2410

Ай бұрын

Or that clot who interviewed Elon Musk last year (or tried to).

This interviewer clearly was not ready to understand what Huxley was saying. Few were at the time. He was warning about a general, universal sickness of post-industrial civilization and all this guy could ask was "but the Russians are worse tho, right?"

@fire.smok3

2 ай бұрын

True

I suppose this has been recorded off a 405-line broadcast - looks quite rough. But great to watch nonetheless.

@tonywright8294

9 ай бұрын

What relevance is that ?

@josephocallaghan3000

9 ай бұрын

an added je ne sais quoi

@psst...heyyou6508

8 ай бұрын

What are you? Is that bad technology ?

The irony this is at a BBC channel...

Liked his LSD, good man!

He was so ahead of his time it's remarkable. We are (or some of us are) such slaves to Social Media technologies to the point of absolute obsession.

The intelligence of old interviews to nowadays. I am trying to only watch this stuff or stick to my own theories. Not the drivel people become rich idols these days.

Aren`t we already living in his book?

Sabbath was made for man, man was not not made for the Sabbath I don't know who was the originator of this phrase but it is a marvellous use of language 👍😉

@jamesgale2147

4 ай бұрын

Jesus, the gospels

@DemonetisedZone

4 ай бұрын

@@jamesgale2147 Jesus didn't actually write the Gospels mate😏 That's a joke btw, steady yourself Jimbob👍

Spot on ! Uhhh, hello AI ?

@Anthony-hu3rj

3 күн бұрын

Yes, my son.

If he could only see the world today...

cellphones!!! amazing😊😊😊

He is talking about Artificial intelligence

So true today - perfectly applicable to advances in AI - should be helping mankind - not replacing jobs.

If he had to have known about the rise internet and ubiquitous mobile devices, and the degree to which we have become slaves to the electronic world and addicts to the endless flow of garbage spewing from our mobiles, he would have known how terrifyingly true his prophesies were. We can never say we weren't warned.

Nothing wrong with technology a pencil is technology is who controls it and if it can be controlled. No to tyranny.

Technology is quite wonderful... we can fart into a tin.

is his eyes pointing in opposite directions.... has he a glass eye? or is he a gecco.

A tecnologia tem por sua propria funcao utilitaria ser constantemente aperfeicoada. E so olharmos para qualquer setor de sua aplicacao para verificarmos o fato. Por exemplos: os transportes e o cinema. Sobre isso e que Huxley afirma que a ciencia e a tecnologia tem leis proprias. Leis que o homem nao controla. De que ele portanto se nao descobrir o controle invertera a finalidade original delas, e se tornara seu escravo. De la para ca a situacao se agravou e agora o controle ou dominio pelo homem da tecnologia depende nao mais da sua suposta dignidade humana mas simplesmente de desejar a propria sobrevivencia. Huxley era um humanista e o valor do homem para ele se expressava atraves das grandes criacoes espirituais. Hoje, portanto, que estas nao constam mais dos interesses gerais, fica em aberto a questao do que motivara a forca de reacao contra o que ai esta...

promo sm 👉

The book "The Sovereign Individual" describes the solution to "The Island" and #Bitcoin is the fundamental technology for the actual implementation.

Enoch Powell predicted the future too, rivers of blood.

Curious fact: these two people died of cancer.

@jwjeieikwnwwn

4 ай бұрын

Do you mean they killed them? Putin ordered cancer to an oligarch and it is proven, you can search for the case, I do not doubt that the CIA had that technology at that time

@jwjeieikwnwwn

4 ай бұрын

AI will be the end of humanity

An intelligent conversation on TV? Whatever next?

Well pass too late

ULEZ cameras.

Huxley was controlled opposition. Do your homework

@williamneumyer7147

4 ай бұрын

What's YOUR agenda? (I assume user-od3yf4yo7p is your real name.)

@user-od3yf4yo7p

4 ай бұрын

@@williamneumyer7147 reading books and EU raports is my homework 🤔

@williamneumyer7147

4 ай бұрын

@@user-od3yf4yo7p I read books, too, and I know what I think of the undemocratic, authoritarian, warmongering EU. Do you mean "reports"?

@williamneumyer7147

4 ай бұрын

@@user-od3yf4yo7p Look, if you want informative reporting on the EU racket here go to The Duran and its two commentators, Mercouris and Christoforu.

@pablohoney9972

3 ай бұрын

you fool. You think a man like this is controlled? this brilliance is under control? it's a contrivance, a conceit in your reckoning? fool.

Gosh, He looks as Evil as the prediction he wanted to happen, Evil

It's incredible how long that men like this can take to say absolutely nothing.

@aaronbritton2709

10 ай бұрын

you hear nothing because you don’t listen.

@deanneely3443

10 ай бұрын

@@aaronbritton2709 I don't remember posting that comment but two weeks ago I would have been so incredibly out-of-my-mind, thanks to being postictal from a particularly nasty cluster of epileptic seizures, as well as the intensity of all the medications that I would have been on... you're right! I'm sure I was barely listening, so I agree.

He made a lot of sense. But I am glad that nobody today would try to speak English in that ridiculous synthetic accent and expect to be taken seriously.

@secondchance6603

4 ай бұрын

🙄

This is nonsense : He is ignoring McLuhan (published in 1964, but the ideas was around before) He is also ignoring Heidegger and others, Lieberman who was the husband of Luxembourg. He was not the first one thinking about technology. The general mood was to be afraid about the URSS, foremost as representation of what could be the future of mankind. It was SF russophobia already. There is in fact nothing to do about technology, and one should stop thinking it's necessary to get everything under control, in fact nothing is under control; one should give up on that. Even your eye is technology, an inbuilt one. Language is technology.

Imagine, this video as a prompt to Ai! 🤖

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitude