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@DemonetisedZone

5 ай бұрын

Huxley is one of my favourite people, Bertrand Russell also. Both saw things for refracted angles Enjoyed this immensely mate👍😉

West - brave new world, East - 1984. Two trains, same destination.

@mdjackson1114

9 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly, one can now observe both sides in real time and its almost like a coin flip 50/50. The tremendous reality though is that we the people will always lose😢

@redskyz483

9 ай бұрын

Very good comment completely true

@china_is_asshole

2 ай бұрын

The ending should be 2 trains, different starting points, same destination.

I didnt realize there was such a difference between orwell and huxley, thank you

@PowerofThought_

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! What is your opinion? Do you agree more with Orwell or with Huxley?

@JoeForth

Жыл бұрын

@@PowerofThought_ in the long run it seems like huxley would be right, but i do sort of feel like something orwellian could still happen to us before that

@hannahrannah2739

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeForth Agreed

@BresciGaetano

11 ай бұрын

​@@JoeForthHuxley was planing not criticizeing. Look for his brother dystopic contributes to humanity... that's amazeing. As amazeing can be to look into a psychopath family.

@nyeahgarner2420

2 ай бұрын

​@@JoeForthThey both paved the road to enslavement, not with machines and hard labor, but with a pen and an active mind.

This was explained in great detail. It really shows what many people are hopefully figuring out. That the Internet and social media have made people complacent to the point of being pawns or blind sheep. As Huxley explained this plays perfectly into society of blind followers who lack curiosity and question little if anything. As long as they can escape to Internet entertainment in it's various forms , nothing else matters to them . This sets a dangerous precedent for society as a whole. Thanks for sharing this!

@juvenalhahne7750

4 ай бұрын

O negócio é saber - sempre o saber - como usar a Internet, o KZread e demais aplicativos: você pode aprofundar sua alienação e burrice ou tornar-se, mais do que antes, inteligente e crítico. Depende de cada um de nós! Citando o Aldous Huxley, morto há mais de meio século mas vivo aqui no KZread para quem ouvi-lo, se há um canto do universo capaz de se libertar, esse é você!

Well done. Reminds me of Terence McKenna videos which I watched a few years ago. Now they never appear in my feed. People need a sense of the sacred in their lives, and they will find it somewhere. The mushrooms were a help for me. I think that we are being groomed to love our slavery and live in constant low grade fear. Also we have not been able to talk about what's happening to us since the so called pandemic. This is not an accident.

I think Huxley made a much better and pertinent prediction of the future than Orwell. The similarities between our modern society and the one described in Brave New World is uncanny. Said that, I also really like Orwell.

@PowerofThought_

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! What do you think about his views on psychedelics, do you think these could actually be of any serious benefit?

@rodrigocarvalho6426

Жыл бұрын

@@PowerofThought_ I have actually tried psychedelics in the past, in part because of Huxley and I think it is a possibility to experiment with. I don't think it is for everyone nor I think it should be encouraged or stimulated but I do think it holds great treasures and certainly my curiosity.

@china_is_asshole

2 ай бұрын

Yeah same here... but when I think about it, I'd say the first half to 3 quarters belong to Huxley and that final 4 quarter belongs to Orwell as the rest of human existence if not checked.

@juvenalhahne7750

2 ай бұрын

As previsões quanto ao futuro, de ambos, Huxley e Orwell, dependem das condições politico- jurídicas do momento historico. Se o regime democrático parece favorável à visão de Huxley, a fraqueza atual do mesmo justifica de preferência Orwell. De fato, parece que as duas previsões, tendo em conta as ameaças atuais a própria estabilidade global, estão misturadas.

@rodrigocarvalho6426

2 ай бұрын

@@juvenalhahne7750 Eu até acho que neste momento o Ocidente se assemelha mais ao imaginário do Huxley enquantk que a China se encaixa mais naquilo que o Orwell descrevia

This was very informative and well put together! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

This is genuinely one of the best videos I’ve ever seen in my life 😊

Excited for more like this. Guy who voices it sounds handsome.

Wisdom and passion, i like that. Reminds me of Plato's vision, but adding passion is definitely essential

Facts yo. Layin it down!

Great video. On point 👍🏻

You should do a video about "Island" as well. I haven't seen any really great analyses with cultural context and there are a lot of societal remedies proposed within Huxleys final book.

Huxley was a great planner... Him and his brother was very suxcessfull too in bringing those horrors to the real world. Scary people.

@8ballstreet

9 ай бұрын

You mean that he wanted these techniques to be implemented and for mankind to become "willingly" enslaved? Or do you mean that what he detailed in his life was used by others, i.e. they took his ideas and implemented them? Sounds like the former. If so, what are your grounds for that view?

@BresciGaetano

9 ай бұрын

@@8ballstreet well, Aldous was also a prominent member of the Fabian Society wich goal Is to create a "socialist" society (for what socialist can mean in the mind of some english elitarian snobs) thru mass manipulation with little steps to induce shifts in the mainstream ideology. His brother Julian was instead a zoologist and genetist. President of the Eugenic British Society. Founding father and first president of WWF. First president of the UNESCU... In the spare time he also gave birth to some funny concepts like "trans-humanism". And no they was not in a "fight" with eachothers. Seam also that Orwell, when Aldous invited him in the Fabian Society, took distsnces after seing the distopic intention. (I read some pics of letters from Orwell to the Fabian Society but they was for auction on Sotheby's and i'm not the kind of guy that can afford to buy something there so i don't know the full extent of the text)

great video

Excellent content

Especially if AI starts to make all of the decisions and generate our entertainment, what place would we then have in the creation of anything political or artistic?

@modernphilosophy4932

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it could be a kind of art we haven’t seen yet?

@lunapond7652

Жыл бұрын

AI is a tool, a machine, it can never replace people, only assist them; the same way digital art programs only resulted in creating a boom of digital art (which is just a different form of drawing) not eliminate any actual people. AI needs a database to pool from. If no one makes art, it has nothing to pool from, art evolves overtime, because societies do, so pooling from the past is not enough. AI is simply a tool to create another form of art, not a replacement, treating it as such is kind of missing the point. People make art to express feelings/thoughts and using AI can make that process easier and more accessible, but you still need people and their authentic ideas,thoughts and feelings.

Started off watching NBA finals highlights and wound up here after ten hours

@brutonano9521

7 ай бұрын

Even better

The parallels are worrisome

@mainstreet3023

Жыл бұрын

All is not lost

@improovbusiness8003

Жыл бұрын

@@mainstreet3023 Truly. There must be something coming to counteract it

Huxley v. Orwell synopsis: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. In 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World people are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us."---- Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age Of Show Business

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Scary stuff!

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I feel that marketing takes away our free choice at a certain point. We are not gods, and while we all have choices, is there really any person on this planet that would be totally impenetrable by the modern forces of marketing? We live in "the land of the free," but how free are we if our roots are in a consume-consume-consume society?

@PowerofThought_

Жыл бұрын

I suppose the difficult part is communicating the intrinsic reward of creativity. How do we communicate to a society going off the metric of consumption you described that the feeling they are seeking can be gained with almost no money at all?

@hannahrannah2739

Жыл бұрын

@@PowerofThought_ That's a great question.

I've loved Huxley's, Brave New World, since my late teens. But he and Orwell are both right.

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Anxiety is not something I suffer from, I think mainly because I don't have kids so don't carry that burden of responsibility but I do see so many people who tell me they suffer from anxiety. Family members, coworkers etc I try to think "what if I had 3 years left to live, would I behave differently? we get caught up in all kinds of inconsequential bollocks but if we were close to death we would surely think of our previous thoughts and anxieties as foolish We trust doctors, we go to them when depressed but rather than spend time with us asking why we are having such feelings the doctors job is to give u something to keep you flat lined in mood But I'm working class and deeply skeptical of middle class people. That's helped me When you're having a good time make sure to announce it loudly and proudly👍♥️

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It has some scary evidence but the thing is it’s a prediction of what would happen but we don’t really know until we get there

It depends on which country. Different countries had slightly different approaches under last few years.

I can clearly see how technology, as amazing as it seems, is harming humanity in many different ways.

Hmm I think Huxley's view of the real threat is the most accurate Orwell's view an intermediate step

Somehow I can agree with his ideas. There is a system of living that we've normalized. We pretend to be doing all great just to fit in on certain narratives that don't even align with ourselves. The jogger jogging in the opposite direction is considered mad or lost. But I sometimes question, are we really lost as people who see the world differently?

It's very interesting that at 01:44 Ted Kaczynski / The Unabomber resounds what Huxley said. And then add the psychedelics and you have an hell of a cocktail. We know the rest....

Huxley's realm

Erich fromm the heart of man eplin this even.more.

ps huxley taught orwell, fabians

Huxley seems more prescient than Orwell.

I view the Big 3 dystopian novels (Fahrenheit 451, BNW, and 1984)as on the same time line. Fahrenheit 451 is where we see the modern world falling into itself and the begins the transition into ths world of Brave New World. The people in BNW become so apathetic and reliant on pleasure that the system can no longer maintain itself and starts to fsll apart. The respnse to this is violeng revolution and dictatorships which we see in the crumbling world of 1984.

We are in the Huxleymobile headed for for the Grand Canyon of social and economic collapse. Have a nice trip.

I feel if we combined Bave New World and 1984, we would be much closer to today's hold on society! It is my belief, that one should read the Communist Manifesto to fully understand what is coming our way.

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Manufactured consent

Orwell, H G Wells, Huxley and the other Fabian Society people were not good people, these books were never meant as warnings, just predictions.

@marvinbrando722

8 ай бұрын

It lookslike

I am all for a psychedelics fund for chemists to mfr and distribute as much as possible for free 😊 I agree, tech is just a more efficient way to go backwards 😂 but more to the root, people don't care to, or know, natural/common law. We decided to live under positive/posited/man-made law that has no foundation in natural laws. When man accepts tech or living conditions that exceed bounds of natural laws, positive law enters like a camel's nose under the natural law tent. In no time, positive law is then used as an economic scheme to enrich a few at the expense of the many.

Worse than both.

Don't watch TV and read instead..

Well, i am not sure, what he has to say. I'm overloaded. But I can say this, "it all depends on who you server and the pure mysterious and beauty of the servitude. A society ruled by wisdom and passion is possible. but it's going to taker a whole heel of a lot more than this. I am sure of it. Cheers Aldous.

Overcome your servitude to the world and acknowledge Jesus Christ! The Revelation is soon upon us! God Bless!

@deirdre108

4 ай бұрын

Nobody cards about your imaginary pet god and its idiotic "revelation".

@farnacleproductions9471

4 ай бұрын

Jesus had a foot fetish

@Harshharsh111

3 ай бұрын

Nope. You are litterally drained and your thinking is a waste of your time. These fables are very childish and growth is mandated at this time more than the past.

@juvenalhahne7750

2 ай бұрын

Cristo não veio para trocar uma servidão por outra mas libertar de todas, a começar dos que temem a liberdade e se apavoram em responder por si mesmos pois nasceram com almas de servos...

Andrew Tate is the solution to the bnw, become stronger, wiser and become the best version of yourself 💪💪💪

Escape from LA analysis please😂😂😂... i have to hear your thoughts on the bigger picture of that movie