Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

I think that's such an important quote.

This was Brave New World Revisited, and he said this in there.

So he gets to the end of his life.

Aldous Huxley gets to the end of his life, and he looks over at his book, his legacy, and he goes, "I think that we're actually gonna be able to make a person who doesn't even care about their dictatorship or the servitude that they're under." And that is a crazy, uh, concept that as he got older, he actually realized that we're perfecting something on a level that's past what I even thought originally, right? And so that's interesting to kind of take into account.

Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture.

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny fail to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distraction.

In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain.

In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.

We may all look forward with eager anticipation to that nobler day when the gods of philosophy once more shall rule the world." Unquote.

Aldous Huxley in his book called Brave New World Revisited quotes a character called the Grand Inquisitor in one of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's parables as saying this.

Quote, "In the end, they," the people, "will lay their freedom at our," the controller's, "feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" Unquote.

The Tucson Citizen newspaper of November the-