Aldous Huxley on Techno dictators (1958 talk)

Aldous Huxley wrote "BRAVE NEW WORLD" back in 1931 and was published in 1931. His brother Julian Huxley was a Eugenicists and they knew the plan back then.Show more

"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley

Interview by Mike Wallace on May 18, 1958, from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

"This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. Mr. Huxley wrote a Brave New World, a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today (1958) Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us." - Mike Wallace

In this remarkable interview, Huxley foretells a future when telegenic presidential hopefuls use television to rise to power, technology takes over, drugs grab hold, and frightful dictatorships rule us all.

Enjoy the journey and tell us in the comments whether he was right.

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