Brave New World (1956) - Aldous Huxley as Narrator

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
An Episode of the CBS Radio Workshop - The Theatre of the Mind.
Featuring Aldous Huxley as Narrator.
Broadcast on 27 January and on 3 February 1956.

[@thegrandwazooofheliopolis4344]

"The middle class does all the work, pays all of the taxes. The upper class gets all the money, pays little taxes. The lower class is there just to scare the shit out of the middle class." - George Carlin

[@shagwell28]

Love George Carlin. He was quite, I read, but like drop a quarter in turn him loose, bout everything, living in new York. Growing up. Reading, watching stocks, news, new yorkers, t v, changes, brings such great things, to think wonder about, rock on George Carlin.

[@ishtlutz1261]

I get the feeling you didn’t listen to all of this or read the book. But George Carlin’s cool. I like him a lot. While comedy can be one of the most volatile places for manipulation to hide, I get no sense of ulterior motive from George Carlin; just reason, logic, common sense. He keeps it real. His stand up about “germs” is actually pretty amazing when applied to today. What he says about God… to each his own. I do think you should listen to this whole thing though; this video. I know it’s not as entertaining as George, or funny - but its something that will stick with you forever; popping back into your memory at strange times & give you a certain… advantage.

[@01107345]

@@shagwell28 I didn't understand either of the last two sentences you wrote.

[@dawnemile4974]

What did the upper class do to have all the money?

[@Dani68ABminus]

Ha! He is spot on.

[@fuhq5121]

We must thank our algorithm overlords for allowing us to hear this.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

"thank Ford" it's already here man.

[@blackempressxempressdevine5658]

Thank Ford lol 😂

[@karlosvulture5014]

Yes, Yes we must give thanks to those who Lord over us, aren't we so lucky to have such leaders guiding our lives!! We live in a mad mad world!

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

very relevant statement. The similarities between what Aldous H. said and what is playing out before us globally are chilling.

[@treyferguson2965]

Thank the Rockefellers, Bildebergs, Fords, Gates, Sorroses, so on and so forth, for this. The globalist elites. The global superpowers. The real money. The billionaires that can buy the world. Don't you love it

[@calmingcrist4515]

"Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well." - Aldous Huxley

[@scorpina69]

@@Hugatree1 My vaccine is to Hug a Tree :))

[@atty.graceqb5451]

We have actually medicalized "ugliness".

[@saltydog-mv4ij]

...I just hugged a Hawthorne tree...ouch... 👁think👁kneeda dock tore

[@AutoAlligator]

Fact.

[@thetruthchannel349]

*Lol*

[@DerbJd]

This has been moved from Fiction to Documentary in bookshops.

[@smking2035]

Rather, documentaries are being moved to Fiction in most

[@mhtbfecsq1]

And they should move many ''factual'' history books or books about politics to the fiction section.

[@beth3531]

@@mhtbfecsq1 Have you ever heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? The Gulag Archipelago is very true! The permanent Lie becomes the only safe form of existence...Every wag of the tongue can be overheard by someone, every facial expression observed by someone. Therefore every word, if it does not have to be a direct lie, is nonetheless obliged not to contradict the general, common lie. There exists a collection of ready-made phrases, of labels, a selection of ready-made-lies.

[@TheNordicKnight]

@@beth3531 can you recommend a video?

[@beth3531]

@@TheNordicKnight yes, I can.....2017 Personality 13: Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag....Jordan B. Peterson on KZbin.

[@ruthmaryrose]

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance” -Aldous Huxley

[@podcastfnw5262]

Or self awareness and moral compass ...and understoodment of cause&effect natural law.

[@GhGh-gq8oo]

Lol “Liberty.” Read books noob

[@andreaadams8074]

yup tryrants always come crawling out of the sewers like that beaver carnival game we have to bash those beavers down before they come all the the way out.

[@WINCHANDLE]

Unfortunately people have surrendered their critical thinking for the titillating's rants of a Con Man. thinking is too hard. Everyone wants the neurotransmitter/addiction stimulation from Trump, Taylor Green, Bobert, Gaetz, DeSantis and all the other Spawns of Satan.

[@michaelsmith2412]

@@WINCHANDLE Don't forget to take another jab!

[@yoya4766]

Nothing like an author narrating their work. So much better than random people narrating.

[@Hwi1son]

This was one of the most recent books I've read. I never thought I would get the audiobook version from the author himself. KZbin is awesome

[@ayyylmao5038]

KZbin is literally Brave New World meets 1984.

[@coolsunsgoldenclassics]

This is a two-parter from the CBS radio workshop also available on the internet archive I'd recommend if you like it download it and burn it to a CD

[@isty4491]

The full audiobook is on YT it is 10-11 hours, dont confuse it with this radio play

[@namedrop66]

@@isty4491 ty

[@NoosaHeads]

KZbin own our souls - yet we think we're in control. Joseph Goebbles knew, 90 years ago, that whoever controls the media, controls the mind. I'd rather we all went back to the pre-internet era. No chance of that. We need our Soma (Big Tech).

[@shofforth1]

What’s scary about this is how close to the mark this is.

[@em-rg3xf]

Terrifing

[@thundergun933]

@mark reed quiet before you get thrown in the ministry of love.

[@shadowlander3073]

That's why this used to be required reading, but then the Ministry realized and upped our medication...

[@thundergun933]

@@shadowlander3073 soma 3 grams

[@betteroffdead]

@@shadowlander3073 I had this as required reading in school. My report on this book was marked down by my English teacher. I hope she is spinning in her grave , now. I was more accurate, than she 'allowed' me to be.

[@mitchmccarron8337]

Wow.. Thank God this is still sharable.. Share it widely folks, before it's removed. Mitch from Australia.

[@darrenwolboldtalk2]

I thinks it part of the "magic" that they have to tell you before they do it do you, as such I think this will stay up, just like the book is still easy to get and there are two films made one In fact there is a very good Canadian version right hear. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ3FYpWaipJ6bdE&ab_channel=ronaldpaul

[@annrenee3265]

They won't remove this it's been part of the school curriculum since 1960 in the UK. It's been the agenda.. he knew

[@hopebear06]

Hey Mitch! Check out the WA government website and search for authorisation to administer a poison-sars cov 2 vax. There's one for adults and one for kids. Cant cut and paste it anywhere Google related because its instantly taken down. Cheers from the Byron Bay FEMA camp.

[@RealMTBAddict]

Why would it be removes you fuckstick

[@scottashe984]

@@RealMTBAddict Censorship.

[@aaronwebb1548]

"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. "But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. "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 those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared 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, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they 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." From "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman.

[@radicalrodriguez5912]

They were both right

[@larrywuzhere3866]

Well said Aaron. Great assessment.

[@redhammer9910]

Well said, only thing I would add is they were in a sense both right. Orwell simply created the fear we experience and Huxley created the cure. Regardless in the end we lose our freedom.

[@macm3081]

prophesy didnt? no orwells vision certainly has appeared and still is in 2022. political correctness is the thought police that started in the mid 80s some people are too hardcore about gender issues these days words such as him and her are becoming taboo now :( i actually think and experience the world as being worse than what george orwell visioned.

[@positivethoughtlibrary]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading that Aaron, great assessment 🙏🏻

[@SarahKingsleyHaussman]

This really drives home how importan cognitive abilities are. The power of reason. A working moral compass. Spirituality and balance.

[@holymoly8848]

Wow this aged incredibly well

[@SV-wb8kh]

Anybody that trades their freedom for safety deserves neither.

[@walkinaxyl]

@Honest Internet User We still have our guns. Don’t be fooled by media. They are murdering many to demonize the 2nd. But we know, what it takes to stay free. People, do not let them inject your children. They will be sterilized or it will kill them.

[@zmotoalarm]

I agree with you but there’s a small window of opportunity Left as technology advances pretty soon your guns are going to be meaningless against super complicated remote control crowd containment robots and automated system

[@zmotoalarm]

Also the new generation of snowflakes do not have the same ethical moral mindset to stand up against tyranny

[@anitam7547]

Fools and their freedom are easily parted.

[@healingfear]

Do you know the original context of this quote? It's worth knowing before quoting it.

[@justabunneh6490]

"Mother-" -Crowd gasps loudly- "Ah, I mean birthing person."

[@edenswaterislife9214]

Mother is German for matter and that is exactly what becomes of the woman who denies the living spirit already dwells in her to give life through her waters. When the father spirit aka holy ghost comes in Wisdom flees her and now that spirit is creating with man. Religion is a cult and the veil is lifting. As a woman I say I do not imagine my spirit with a penis. Why invite it in? Hmmm

[@deejaybundst1671]

part of the soul of mankind is embracing change

[@bettyrubble198]

Justa Bunneh have you seen the film of this? They not only gasp at the word mother but they show complete disgust on their faces, like they can't imagine a human being carrying such a thing inside them as they've only ever known babies to be created through test tubes. It somehow also goes along with the lyrics to this - In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) Zager and Evans In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your sides Your legs got nothing to do Some machine is doing that for you In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa In the year 7510 If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then Maybe he'll look around himself and say Guess it's time for the Judgement day In the year 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty head then He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been Or tear it down and start again, woah woah In the year 9595 I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothing, woah woah Now it's been 10, 000 years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may thrive In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies

[@marillion4th393]

@@edenswaterislife9214 sounds interesting.... but way too cryptic for me..

[@kelsijodryer6348]

I thought the same thing 😅

[@janicetaylor7516]

There are two types of human on this planet, regardless of wealth, education, power, status etc: the ones with a soul (conscience) and the ones without. Simple as that.

[@tonygrowley5275]

There are two kinds of humans on this planet. Ones who think there are two kinds of humans and the ones that know better.

[@charleshowie2074]

@@tonygrowley5275 Nailed it.

[@zoeyz7106]

All humans have souls. Very few are in communion with God, and many have been snatched up by the world. These are the two types of humans.

[@doctorcofrin851]

He was prophetic. Look at this world. !!

[@EricBlair-jg2ux]

March 2020: '2 weeks to flatten the curve' August 2021: 'Papers Please' 2030: Brave New World

[@tensevo]

That's some descent into tyranny, I was expecting things to be more apocalyptic , but here we are.

[@hazymist_872]

@@tensevo i wish it was more apocalyptic lol. sounds harsh but i’d rather be alone than be led by tyrannists. i ain’t going down without a fight.

[@Pepsiguy]

“Oh for Ford’s sake.” I’m stealing this.

[@antoniamontana9671]

2030: Brave New Third World Civil War

[@sazon860]

@@antoniamontana9671 let’s hope it’s more like ‘22

[@Sameoldfitup]

'Maybe this world is another planet's hell.'' ---- Aldous Huxley.

[@fernandoscrenci4874]

Actually Hell / Heaven Awaits Us All, But Most will be Going to Hell !!

[@luckydave328]

@@fernandoscrenci4874 Obviously only an evil god would design such a system. Fortunately no such god exists. Except sadly, in the sick minds of humans.

[@hgrimes9824]

Or simply a circle of Hell itself.

[@nothing2see315]

Mars’ Australia

[@nothing2see315]

@@luckydave328 I wouldn’t say sick, more like scared of dying and this life being all there was.

[@timhalstead9790]

I've read the book, and today, we're living the book

[@casusolivas]

Technically we are living in the prequel

[@ceased2care]

"Science, technology, social organisation, these things have ceased to serve man, they have become his Masters "

[@Deliquescentinsight]

If Aldous were speaking today he would date the story in this decade, we are not far off the level of dehumanisation

[@bluefairyuk]

He was a Mason, he knew what they want this world to be like….

[@JerseyShoreCollector]

Wrong! It’d start in the Bolshevik genocide of Russia

[@andreagoncalvesdossantos5087]

Absolutely!

[@saltyzu8412]

China is working hard at human genetic bio hacking . They have already successfully gene edited some twins that are alive today. Slippery slope. The new world order is being ushered in as we speak.

[@Perry1769]

He was a member of the Fabian Society, their coat of arms was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They derived their name after the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, surnamed Cunctator, usually translated as "the delayer", refers to the strategy that he employed against Hannibal's forces during the Second Punic War. Facing an outstanding commander with superior numbers, he pursued a then-novel strategy of targeting the enemy's supply lines, and accepting only smaller engagements on favourable ground, rather than risking his entire army on direct confrontation with Hannibal himself. As a result, he is regarded as the originator of many tactics used in guerrilla warfare. Long story short, we are getting fucked slowly. Huxley was just whispering into our ears telling us how we were gonna get fucked. He’s no prophet, he had insider intel because he was one of them.

[@captainswan3079]

2020 was just a drop in the bucket. Things are about to get much, much worse.

[@danielj1063]

... nothin' like a good war

[@monsieurdargason6874]

Just as it’s said it was before the ushering in of the new society. Major civil unrest, wars, famine, then the new order came, bringing peace and happiness. I think we might see something like it in the next 15 years.

[@bennymoret1339]

@@monsieurdargason6874 i Said in less Time.

[@johnmchugh8049]

Our professors made us read this and other books to warn us yet here we are 🤦🏼

[@ChatGPT1111]

How visionary now that “Mothers” are to be known as “Birthing Persons”. Just to be fair and all.

[@timprescott4634]

Are you KIDDING ME? This is insanely great! YT actually serves a greater purpose than all “social” media combined!

[@Donna-cc1kt]

We could use a brave new world now. One with dignity, hope, generosity, freedom.

[@Spright91]

This was a great documentary.

[@FOR_THE_Pascal.]

Haha! Very true

[@AlphaLegionTacticoolShitposts]

Agreed

[@n1mbusmusic606]

nice

[@diligentsun1154]

Timely, Fordly and Simply Pneumatic!

[@bossbluff3577]

PRICELESS.

[@linjubar]

“You will own nothing and be happy.” ~ The WEF

[@georgeorwell5596]

Well I know nothing and not hsppy

[@blxtothis]

The book is just as brilliant and biting as it was when written. This radio presentation is something I’d not heard before, quite an eye opener, the sound effects are something else. It’s right out of the mould of the infamous Orson Wells’ radio dramatisation of War of the World’s. “Mother”, now come on let’s not be smutty. Priceless stuff!

[@snedzy1506]

"Follow the rules, play the game and be happy." Oh, and ah, don't forget to own nothing 🤤

[@agenda2175]

turn the pagie

[@mark-yj5sg]

Those satanists won’t destroy humanity. It beats inside all of us, and now more and more are awakening every day. Ready to defeat the inhumanity and darkness of the forum and it’s trans-human digital agenda.

[@ronin8402]

@@mark-yj5sg amen my friend 🙏

[@trouaconti7812]

So does destruction beat in our hearts. We’re a building/destruction bound species, and very self destructive and exploiative of others

[@mark-yj5sg]

@@trouaconti7812 are we? Isn’t the world organised and built by an elite group of corporations and banking cartels to further their wealth and power? I was born into this system and didn’t choose to make it this way, just like the majority. The masses have been indoctrinated through elite controlled education, news, music, culture and social media to play the only game in town, we didn’t create the rules but need to follow them to get by. We must bring an awakening and positive change.

[@donnrutherford7059]

Carlin 1984 and this They weren't a blue print for the future They were warnings

[@DougerArt]

any examples of carlin being as good as this? i like some of the things he has to say but i've never found him that insightful in a foretelling kind of sense.

[@MyChihuahua]

Announcement

[@bellautopia818]

That's funny I just left basically the same comment I was wondering if we're well and Huxley had a baby LOL anywhoooz... great minds think alike......💜💜💜🤔👍😋😉🤗💋💚💜🎵🎶💤💤💤💤

[@triciasomogyi5431]

Wyatt Brunow - Not even close.

[@cantweallplaynice3912]

"WE" Eugene Zimmerman predates both this book and 1984

[@generated6375]

We were warned.

[@MagmaSloth64]

Thank Ford this is available on youtube!

[@EndeavorLSMedia]

There's 1984 and then there's Brave New World

[@dingydarla]

Feels like we are living in a bizarre mixture of both of these stories.

[@blackempressxempressdevine5658]

Truth

[@blondwiththewind2598]

@@dingydarla ... Self-fufilling prophecy.

[@martap.548]

@@blondwiththewind2598 There is no such thing as prophecy. Anything that's called a "prophecy" is actually a blue print of the plan.

[@treyferguson2965]

1984 wasn't quite as exact as Brave New World I believe. 1984 told us books would be burned and destroyed. Brave new world, told us people would lose the desire to read all together??? Much more accurate in my opinion. Nobody will read the article that goes along with a catchy headline, just the headline.

[@whozyourdaddy]

CBS then: Brave New World. CBS now: Big Brother.

[@hisjadedwolf]

Thank you so much for preserving this radio broadcast and sharing it with us all. I've read this book off and on since grade school but it has been many many years since my last reading. Finding this broadcast made me feel like a teenager curled up with a soon-to-be favorite book for the very first time. Simply wonderful. Thank you!

[@sonofawwiivet8336]

Elvis 1956 EVILS 1956..... They use to say Rock n Roll was

[@GhostRider-sc9vu]

I wonder if this is another of the many, many radio shows that broadcast were saved by the United States Armed Forces Radio for replay to servicemembers stationed overseas?

[@herbert9241]

Brilliant. And with a Bernard Herrmann score - perfect.

[@MH-cv5ye]

It's fair to say, this aged well.

[@scottal]

🤣

[@scottal]

Apologies for an emoji i just considered it mildly ironic

[@jkgkjgkijk]

Based

[@janethayes5941]

How did I luck out with this on my feed!? Thanks👌👏😁

[@diligentsun1154]

You have been CHOSEN. Welcome.

[@scottpreston5074]

We chose you to become one of the cognoscenti. Use this knowledge wisely.

[@nchevrea]

Maybe it’s because of the content we search for.

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

Huxley took the title of this book from miranda's line in act two of Shakespeare's The Tempest...."O, brave new world, with so many wonderful things in it"

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

@@scottal Huxley was forever nicking titles for his works. His The doors of perception is lifted directly from William Blake's The marriage of heaven and hell (the rock group The Doors also took their name from the same quote ) " man lives in a prison of his own making , But once the doors of perception are cleansed he sees himself for what he really is , Immortal and divine". If you like The Tempest you'll love Blake's The marriage of heaven and hell

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Yes.

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

@@peggyfranzen6159 although Huxley , being an atheist , didn't adhere to one of the most famous couplets from The Tempest , "My end will be despair , Unless I turn to prayer ". Prospero , act five. Probably would've done him the world of good. Man is not God. Although a few believe they are 😂

[@plasteredbastard]

how chilling to hear him feel in '56 we were in a downward trajectory and that was 65 years ago.

[@coolsunsgoldenclassics]

Yeah 56 65 2112

[@biancalm999]

People give too much credit to Nostradamus he ain't nothing in comparison what Huxley wrote, damn this is so on point!!😱 I am not too happy about being part of this New Brave world! Fantastic Book!👌

[@Christreturns4sure]

Try the Bible, He's never wrong!

[@biancalm999]

@@GPhish I need to read it thanks for the recommendation!

[@biancalm999]

@@Christreturns4sure 👍

[@RealMTBAddict]

@@Christreturns4sure fuck the bible

[@tonygrowley5275]

Do you know how churches are in Amerikkka?

[@TheTigersbay]

Just like this insane world we live in .

[@tonygrowley5275]

Do you know how many churches are in Amerikkka?

[@S.J.L]

Thanks for the upload. I read this my sophomore year of highschool. It changed my life.

[@joeylepaonyt]

6 years since this video was uploaded and yet barely half a million views. Why am I not surprised?

[@richardsargentsr.1384]

I loved it when I read it in 9th grade, but i just couldn't listen to it :I'm living it

[@jeanwallace9791]

1956 was a good year one of the last for free thinking and thinkers. Blessing all

[@andrewmorton395]

I was born in 1956, I have Autism, AD HD OCD really bad anxiety and depression

[@jeanwallace9791]

@@andrewmorton395 Your still here, think about it.. many are not. I’m more into counting my blessings than dwelling on a problem or none. Blessings

[@harmonyhelps1714]

Really?I was born in 1956 Have ADD

[@jeanwallace9791]

@Harmony helps.. @laughter helps, don’t think you meant to but you’ve made my day. Blessings 🌹

[@tonygrowley5275]

Free thinkers are alive and well, today.

[@jovanalmen8660]

1984 chilled me more.

[@stevenhumphrey1838]

Yes, yes... algorithm overlords. Thank you so much for allowing us to hear this... How gracious of y'all. May the be blessed with the fleas of a thousand camels visited upon your groin!

[@ConspiracySmurf]

So glad I finally made the time for this one. Scary stuff.

[@fernandoscrenci4874]

There's Always Room for a nice Criminal Conspiracy!! Especially Now ah days !!

[@esterwilson7846]

One of the first books I ever read and absorbed. I read it in about 1990 when society was on the ledges about to commit to this world irreversibly. 31 years later I cannot believe how quickly we got here. Billionaires battling over control of orbits and all the rest

[@mattmo411]

Oh Brave New World!

[@blackempressxempressdevine5658]

It’s unbelievable how this is ringing true now .

[@danielj1063]

@@mattmo411 Not so brave then. Rats in civilized cage now

[@mattmo411]

@@danielj1063 Glory to the Antichrist 😎

[@treyferguson2965]

Year I was born. Be the tip of the spear, of the information war!!! Expose the lies of the globalists and the new world order!!!!

[@nicholascampbell90]

I'm just glad I don't have to wait a week to listen to part 2 😁

[@daleracer4233]

But then you'd have something to be excited about

[@catladyoftroyn.y.8713]

I am really enjoying these old broadcasts! Thanks for sharing them on KZbin. My father, 95, was blinded by way of a botched surgery at Stratton VA Hospital, and gets audio tapes from The Talking Library for the Blind. I sure hope they have these CBS recordings at library, as I'm going to order as many as I can find, for my father. I'm sure he will enjoy them, as much, if not more, than I do! Again, thank you so much!!!!

[@victorcelna3028]

Books on a dystopian future. Welcome to the dystopian present.

[@geni40]

' The price of liberty and common humanity is eternal vigilance ' - Wow!

[@grandstandguy]

What is meant by common humanity?

[@danielj1063]

Respect for one another

[@grandstandguy]

@@danielj1063 Bull. Respect means not intentionally importing foreigners into white countries and then telling those white people they must "respect" those same foreigners. When whites are already a minority worldwide by a long shot. Is that respectful of our wonderful governments? Or is everything just bullshit. All lies. Fuck your respect. Fuck this joke of a world. You all make me sick. Choke on your lies and your quiet hatred of all that is good.

[@SamvedIyer]

@@grandstandguy But one might ascribe a similarity between 'respect for one another', as there should exist, and 'not importing foreigners into white countries by the planeloads'. For the one is content with leaving foreigners to their own fate and the other is a needless burdening of oneself with ameliorating the fate of the foreigner.

[@mushypeasplease8872]

@@grandstandguy - racist axe grinding is never an argument. What the hell has the colour of your skin got to do with anything. Your weird neurosis is embarrassing.

[@darwinnoah2851]

So much is coming true with this book and orwell , covid 1984 we are living right now

[@nonhominid]

Huxley wrote the book. 2022, we are living it.

[@TheShrimpdoctor]

Forget 200 years in the future Aldous - make it 100

[@donniblanco5239]

Build Back Better - Hands, Face, Space - Follow the Rules, Play the Game, Be Happy 😮

[@Dr.Hoffman]

Child like statements used with purposeful intent by stunted psychopaths that wish to enforce an infantile mindset as the norm. Sesame Street authoritarianism

[@BAM-jc7uy]

Thank You Mrs Cravens, old Albuq HI School for ur diligence and sounding an alarm and warnings....

[@catherineshoemaker9106]

Thank you so much for posting this

[@joannewilson1021]

He was part of the Fabian society club that’s how he knew this was coming. This has been socially engineered.

[@NuLiForm]

YES!...he was born into the class that engineered it...this was his way of warning us & clearing his soul

[@comsunjava]

@@NuLiForm Well, it's more than that, he has the vision, the brilliance, the genius, to portray a possible future we can choose, like Philip K. Dick / Minority Report, or Orson Welles and his jaded view of communism after a brief flirtation, captured in Animal Farm and 1984. Now, someone comments below "The world Klaus Shwab, Gates, Attali, etc. are dreaming for us.", and that is partially correct, but Schwab, Gates are not visionary enough, they rely on the Dicks, Gibsons, Huxleys, Zemyatin (We), Koestler to showcase the dangerous possibilities, but because they are deranged, and only focused on almighty power, in a Faustian way, they see this as "the way". There is an alternate ending to Lord of the Rings - what if Frodo kept the Ring?

[@joannewilson1021]

​@Independent He is intelligent but he was also part of the inner circle privy to this knowledge. It's a plan that's being played out. For instance World Religion in a New Era by Alice A Bailey rolls out a blueprint that was not a prediction of the future of society but a blueprint to execute, you tell me how much of this has happened. 1 Take God and prayer out of education. 2. Reduce parental authority over children. 3. Destroy the traditional Christian family structure. 4. If sex is free, make abortion legal and easy. 5. Make divorce easy and legal, free people from the concept of marriage for life. 6. Make homosexuality and alternative lifestyle. 7. Debase art, make it run mad. 8. Use media to promote and change mindset. 9. Create an interfaith movement. 10. Get governments to make all these law and get the church to endorse these changes. Sounds like it's everything you see happening today. All planned in advance and society is being destabilized due to it. Her book was published 70 plus years ago but couldn't be more relevant to what we're seeing play out today and not because she was intelligent and insightful but because her teachings are being followed and implemented at the government level.

[@martinburrows6844]

@@joannewilson1021 cant find that book anywhere to buy .

[@tonygrowley5275]

Do you know how churches are in Amerikkka?

[@fattyginsberg4977]

You remember this cautionary tale when YOU TALK TO SOMEONE WHO IS WOKE .

[@stickymarx]

Haha! L&Ps! ;Qxxx

[@theresaheyer537]

woke sounds hokey to me.to be AWAKE might be good,woke's like wookie....fantasy

[@leoross5777]

half the world doesn't even know what 'woke' means

[@robbenvanpersie1562]

@@leoross5777 lol true

[@belkyhernandez8281]

@@leoross5777 usually the people criticizing people who are woke

[@rexterrocks]

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in it!

[@revelationakagoldeneagle8045]

I remember hearing this on the radio 📻 I was a year old! ✌️ 😎 We have been decieved for eons! Trust No Man! 🪶

[@callumbush1]

90 years since it was first written and next year (2022) will be 90 years since first published!

[@jareddoddtheblessedfamily]

I love how it ends with God being the root of liberty and life. Also interesting how the goal of the New World was to eliminate "temptation" and to replace it with "comfort", in other words, calling nothing sinful. Sound familiar?

[@bass9351]

Wen they say god in public they mean Satan

[@Christreturns4sure]

Calling evil good and good evil. Too bad they painted the man who believed in God as crazy and suicidal.

[@miosis23]

@@Christreturns4sure but as you say, all is turned 180 degrees. he was the only sane individual. he surrendured his life so as to claim eternal life. for some reason it reminds me of the tale of dracula. he lives 'forever' but exists as though dead. cannot see daylight, must extract life from others, cannot be seen in the reflection of a mirror, must 'sleep' as though buried...there's some allegory there.

[@billyhurst4319]

Sounds very familiar , like what were living in now in 2021

[@jareddoddtheblessedfamily]

@Skydaddy Myth-Busters very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@oghamstone5964]

2021,peoples lining up for their "soma".

[@amyhermanns9885]

You mean COVID shots?

[@TheMaggieDress1]

sleeping pills....pills of all kinds...line ups for big HARMA

[@tonygrowley5275]

Alcohol has been with us for a long time..

[@Syl-Vee]

What a gift to be able to hear the author narrate some of his work. Thank you! (and CBS)

[@kevinrex7414]

I like how we can hear what people in the 50s sounded like.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Thus book was written in1932.

[@GAB-vq7re]

Listening to this at every step where a method of control or conditioning is introduced. My mind immediately thinks of the many parallels that already exist in society that are driving us ever so slowly in this exact direction. The majority of the populous won't notice it, a portion will be content in their subservience, and the rest of us (I imagine many of you here listening to this as I am) will be those that refuse to go along with the game they have so perfectly built for us to play. Stay vigilant and be prepared my friends for their are dark times ahead if things continue as they are.

[@JeffM---]

Well said my friend.

[@karagi101]

Did you forget to take your meds again?

[@GAB-vq7re]

@@karagi101 I did take the red pill with a soma and things are getting pretty weird at this point

[@jeanettegarcia1300]

My loved ones have criticized me because I refuse to take vaccine nor wear a mask since the beginning of the pandemic. I researched it all and wld post with facts and websites for others to read for themselves yet because I'm not a college graduate nor am I a Dr or nurse Im looked at as if I'm dumb and a conspiracy theorists. But God gave me discernment and shown me alot of things to tell others. For all who are awaken prayers and keep ur vibrations at a higher frequency level. We will win and overcome this suppression being imposed on us all. Love peace and unity I send out to u all for we are ONE with the Universe to become one

[@ceebee7707]

@@jeanettegarcia1300 you have a good head on your shoulders!

[@revdbsa]

The pursuit of happiness as the purpose of life continues - as does society's daily dose of mind numbing and personality deadening insistence on conformity. "So long, freedom. I'm glad to have known you. I'm sorry to see you go.". Thankyou for releasing this. Amazingly prophetic.

[@OrganicDemocracy]

We've never had 'freedom'. We've always had the notion of freedom, but freedom IS NEVER FREE. We've accepted the notion of freedom through indoctrination from infancy. Most people never realize it.

[@jackbicknell4711]

What do you mean by happiness?

[@revdbsa]

@@jackbicknell4711 Good Q! The 'what's in it for me?' or the search for the 'anti-stress/anti-angst' component to living? That elusive state of satisfaction which, in reality, is always just out of reach when sought selfishly? I guess I'm thinking, 'happiness isn't the ultimate goal of life'...

[@jackbicknell4711]

@@revdbsa So what do you think is the point of life?

[@revdbsa]

Forgive delayed reply Jack, have been considering. There's a Bible verse that might 'do' as a bit of an answer to your far reaching Q. "Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God" - which means following the example of Jesus who served others and who embraced all the good that is in life and people, dying for the rubbish we generate and rising from death, promising to return to put our world to rights. So it's living today in the light of that future... What's your 'answer'? BSA

[@pbohearn]

Old radio shows were so cool. The actors voices were everything.

[@bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953]

This is the original Matrix.

[@woohanrebel2549]

This was when CBS was actually news.

[@makermarx8862]

Aldous was an insider and knew what was to unfold...

[@nuqwestr]

His brother, Julian, was the insider, not Aldus.

[@misssassydudds]

OMG - I read this in 1984 when I was doing my HSC (or year 12 in Australia ) It was on the final exam. Thank you Aldous Huxley. You were a remarkable human being and so far ahead of your time! ✌️✌️

[@hyarti7454]

Wohhw he was way before his time.....

[@bellaquest1]

The Huxley's were initiates. They were in the in-group of the elites... it's not that Aldous Huxley was such a great visionary...he wrote about what he knew was coming.

[@cooldudecs]

@@bellaquest1 intellectuals looking down on the peasants. Americas first autocratic society, who views election losses as a reason to tweak voting or the system to make sure it's easier to manipulate results.

[@swenett1308]

This was a book I needed for one of my courses in University. When I see how things are unfolding I think about this book and another one called 1984 by George Orwell. However, this is how man thinks and perceive things but God has a different plan and outcome. I trust God.

[@OrganicDemocracy]

As a 'recovering Catholic', I beg to differ. Trust yourself.

[@swenett1308]

@@OrganicDemocracy that's up to you. Trust whatever you want it's not my place to tell you who to trust and vice versa. I must say based on my experiences I will always trust God. I know what I know. I feel Sorry for those who never experience the power and authority of God In their circumstances.

[@therhenefactor]

@@swenett1308 True. Always trust God. He knows the reason for everything. If you trust man, or even yourself, you still end up failing. So why not trust God. I mean, we trusted our leaders and look at where we are.

[@texasviking1]

@@OrganicDemocracy that’s because you were a part of the church of satan and you still hold those beliefs.

[@tonygrowley5275]

Your god is a mythological character.

[@pinschrunner]

I read this in High School and remember nothing. Good to hear this again.

[@tonygrowley5275]

"Follow the rules. Play the game. Be happy." Every society and culture says this. Every tribe, family, business, club, organization, religion. etc., etc.

[@Germanicus_Daimetor]

Mr. Huxley was off by about 160 years.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Aldous Huxley's father Julian was quite interesting.

[@Gurl-5150]

Love this book. Creeps me out, yet is so familiar as well.

[@scottal]

:)

[@Mr.ChaBuDuo71]

Surprised this is still available to listen to.

[@sootzbitz7770]

Life is strange. The duality. To think people sat and listened to this last century. They said it will never happen but we're scared to their death...today in 2022 we live the brave new world

[@gurgy3]

7:20 “Birthing Person” controversy anyone?

[@flyingboxcow8724]

Spoiler: the "savage" becoming "completely alone," in the ending gives another insight into why some commit suicide. They can feel no escape within our current society. Not even an abandoned lighthouse can provide shelter from the noise. Beautifully written documentary.

[@scottwb2296]

Home , light home ,through and through

[@bonnieandclyde222]

I recently feel no peace whatsoever in this world, even at a park or place that was quiet , it's not now everywhere is noise and controlling eyes.

[@flyingboxcow8724]

@@bonnieandclyde222 there certainly are places of solitude if you can create them. I've recently done "people watching" and it definitely eases the anxiety of being around other people when you realize that everyone has their own agenda and problems to deal with, like you.

[@yukonstriker1703]

@@flyingboxcow8724 Stellar. 'People watching' I've always done, it's recently become my favourite pass-time. Calming

[@foxiefair123]

Truth.

[@bobby81212]

Back when they actually spread educational information in msm and on the radio.

[@teresatheme7110]

CBS would not air this today

[@whocares8735]

This is nwo preprogramming you fool

[@balaclavabob001]

You realise you're saying that on a platform that has millions of hours of educational videos that can be accessed for free right ?

[@whocares8735]

@@balaclavabob001 you realize you talk like a arrogant jerk off right? 💁🏽‍♀️

[@mariannwatt2678]

@@balaclavabob001 you use what is there that does not mean you have to like or love or even respect mutch about it starved for choice ?

[@hazardghazali4113]

And now we are living in this wonderful world 😭

[@chrisanderson9157]

55:12 "But I don't want comfort I want God"....Are we ready for this? For truly I say to you that is exactly what will soon come. It will be impossible to have both. Choose this day whom you will serve.

[@monsieurdargason6874]

Now are you referring to the biblical God, or the spiritual God, which I would call nature? Either way, what you say is true

[@chrisanderson9157]

@@monsieurdargason6874 Only one God my friend. All others are counterfeit. Jesus said, "I Am the Only Way, The Only Truth, and the Only Life. No one can come to the Father except through Me."

[@waltnowpigpig5492]

@@chrisanderson9157 I agree with you. I find the problem with the Christian Right of the U.S.A. They are convinced that it is their calling, to actively bring about the End Times. It’s not! It’s Gods job. Our job is to love each other, love God, feed the sick,the hungry, the jailed. The abortion debate is the Christian-Rights basic need to ignore the beatitudes. We ( the U.S.A.) are not a Theocracy. It is not our place to impose our faith and religious beliefs on others. Jesus never belonged to an American political party. He never carried an American flag. The GOP, is a fascist party, useing faith

[@PepsiT98]

@@waltnowpigpig5492 Well said!

[@Konfide4043]

Hard to believe in a book they created and propagated. The issue with humans is we never know what the humans before us did to change reality and the way we see the world. There are so many good books and Benevolent God's. Sorry I'm not buying it. What you believe is mostly based on where you were born. If we were all Iranian we would be talking about Allah and their Bible just like you guys are now. Nope, not buying

[@mscarolynnigro]

Stand up my fellow humans... soon it will be too late.

[@tagaloa9626]

Let's just die already. I found a way out after death.

[@mscarolynnigro]

@@tagaloa9626 I'm gonna stick around

[@tagaloa9626]

@@mscarolynnigro for a minute maybe two. I'm not trying to die either, but after we do, what an opportunity

[@freezo244]

“The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance.” yup

[@margeryfranko1850]

Thank you for recommending this to me. I did study this at school but it is great to Hear it spoken. Thank you Aldous Huxley.

[@mariaellis2882]

I love that they are using music from Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone.

[@YHVH7]

"Do not attempt to adjust your TV set.... "

[@nuqwestr]

This predates Twilight Zone

[@debbieandmarc]

Makes me think of the movie Demolition Man. The female lead was named LaNina Huxley, little message there.

[@Britswhoknit]

Good catch, friend.

[@jarodshuler9566]

Notice how even the term "mother" in our BNW is decried as a micro aggression---"birthing person" is now Newspeak!

[@tonygrowley5275]

Do you know how churches are in Amerikkka?

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Everyone still has a baby mama!

[@Araconox]

I wrote a book a few years ago, about past life regressive hypnosis sessions I conducted with my clients. The book: 'Spirituality Not For Sale: A Psychics Insight On Past Regression and Healing'. In chapter twenty-two, under deep hypnosis, 'Rene' took us into the future. Here is the gist of that 'conversation': ....'I then left her to choose where she wanted to go next. I asked her, 'What is the date?' I was absolutely floored to hear the date she responded with: "2309". I asked her to tell me what the world around her was like. She said, " I'm inside somewhere, a big box. There are big screens all over. I think they are windows, but are projection screens. I think it's a view of an ocean with a beach, but it's only a screen. Everything is white. The furnishings are simplistic and square. All white. Everything that I want responds to voice commands. I couldn't see doors or handles; no appliances are in the kitchen. Everything is austere and clinical. Food is dispensed from the wall in the form of pills. My clothes are straight and white. A tunic. I have no shoes., my feet are bare. The floors look like a white solid tile. They have no grooves, and are cold and slippery. I talk with someone and their face appears on a screen. Their voice comes from all around me. No one smiles. I am feeling in total isolation and loneliness. Women get pregnant in some artificial way, with robotic equipment. She is unconscious when the baby is born and never sees it again. I don't want to be here."

[@ItsMeNanaD71]

Back in the 1980s I was assigned this book for a book report in high school. I didn't make it past chapter one & I was so horrified I refused to read it & took a zero on the report. Fast forward to 2021 & I've got an interest in it now. However I am less than 5 minutes in & all the feelings from decades before came rushing back.

[@mballer]

You're living it, try to escape, you can't close the book.

[@matthewmontague7937]

It was the 80s for me too

[@fernandoscrenci4874]

Thanks for sharing your history experience!! Interesting!! Time is Something, when you look though a bottle of Sand !! Thanks Again!!

[@RealMTBAddict]

JFC, grow up. It's just a book.

[@willbe5994]

I call BS

[@jwenting]

he predicted it to come true 200 years in the future. It came true not 65 years later...

[@beth3531]

It came true to many in Russia years before this! Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag.....Jordan B. Peterson.....It may still be on KZbin?

[@jwenting]

@@beth3531 that's more 1984 that Brave New World. What we have now is most all of BNW. Social media and mass media is the soma for the masses, as well as the thought control and uneducation.

[@tensevo]

When you say, came true, well, he was close to elitist at the time, so he knew what the plan was. To the extent we are not there yet is a credit to the great dystopian authors who made us think about what we want to be, what society do we want to live in, and what the unintended consequence of a supposed utopia might be.

[@beth3531]

@@jwenting the division of people is what I was talking about. How people that once lived comfortable, were put in camps and made slaves.

[@beth3531]

@@tensevo I think we have lived in the closest thing to a utopia there will ever be on this earth........some may not know it, but that's their problem!

[@SalkisRe]

Training the babies to be afraid of flowers so that they stay inside the walls of factories toiling.. my God..

[@elizdonovan5650]

Brilliant story. Thank you for uploading, much appreciated. ☘️🌝🌲

[@annanelson6830]

Thank you for posting this. And yes, thank Ford for the algorithm that brought it to my Home Screen.