Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Lecture notes on Huxley

Huxley born in 1800s

Understanding on England at the ti me

Place were people aren't delt with

Household doing more for less

Smart superior child but not understood

Seperateness for BNW

14 his mother died.. Happiness couldnt come from mother figure

Soma like heroin but no side effects like sickness and keeps happiness

BNW unhappy is going to New Mexico reality of povert illness and death-greater level of happiness because hoing through life

Oxford graduated with Honors, met authors

One child

Time in Europe and America

Didn't go to war like his friends

a lot of people talking but not saying much

Birth control in italy.. Enough kids for an army (in future a question for state)

Wrote BNW in just four months & compared with 1984

1931 before Hitler so no reason for dictatorship

1946 forward so social sanity isn't impossibility. Convinced sanity can be achieved

Dangers to threaten sanity may occur in the future

Comercials vs Hypnopedia

Govt can deprive people of freedom. We have to take it with intent. What can we do about it

Looking for a drug to find an escape from self in the 1950s. Focus in the mind

47 books as a writter. Some thought he was better at writing essays

BNWresearch research research!!!!

Wasn't an American citizen.. Passivist because of his religion

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