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    A Rare Recording of Aldous Huxley
    A Rare Recording of Aldous Huxley
    A Rare Recording of Aldous Huxley
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    A Rare Recording of Aldous Huxley

    Written by Aldous Huxley

    Narrated by Aldous Huxley

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    Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He was best known for his novels Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. 

    Earlier in his career Huxley edited the Oxford Poetry magazine wrote travel articles, film stories, and scripts. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, including universalism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.

    This is a recording is part of part of a speech where he describes Brave New World, and George Orwell's Animal Farm.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateMay 4, 2023
    ISBN9781593167486
    A Rare Recording of Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

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    • 5/5
      Interesting to hear his voice. Investigating the mind of this brilliant man will be the onset of a hero’s journey, of sorts.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Ok, not bad. I would say old Aldous is wiser than the average man today, by at least 10 times. Sorry folks. Wake up.
    • 5/5
      A Prophet, a visionaire, a great man, why must i write all this words?
    • 5/5
      Foresight. Apropos of his own parable 'Brave new world' and Orwell's '1984', Huxley describes the terms of what he calls 'a scientific dictatorship', never more compelling today in times of Google and Facebook. The oppressed coming to love servitude is his definition of the perfect dictatorship.
    • 5/5
      Huxley was so right. Just look how people willingly pay to have forms of surveillance systems such as Amazon’s Alexa and other company equivalents. Orwell was right that Big Brother is constantly listening/watching but it’s done in a way Huxley predicted.
      Ps. By the way he is comparing the Brave new World to the 1984 not Animal Farm. You may want to correct that admin.
    • 5/5
      Scary scenario described of a scientific control of the masses as is right now today.
    • 4/5
      Brilliant comparison but only touching the surface, almost an introduction
    • 5/5
      Very interesting, and I think he is unfortunately correct. If anything, control will (and is) a mix of the two.