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Aldous Huxley's Letter to George Orwell [View all] Ichingcarpenter Mar 2012 OP
++Orwell and Huxley were both right - the proles get the boot,the Outer Party have video and soma leveymg Mar 2012 #1
But hypnotism is demonstrable bunk longship Mar 2012 #2
The "hypnotic effect" of staring at moving images on video screens is real & demonstrated by science leveymg Mar 2012 #3
Okay, you're correct longship Mar 2012 #4
I think we agree. The point is that Huxley got it right that people would be doped, distracted, leveymg Mar 2012 #5
I am with you --- 100%. eom longship Mar 2012 #6
++ Good! - NT Newest Reality Mar 2012 #7
++ Thanks! leveymg Mar 2012 #8
I think that we're further away from BNW and 1984 than when they were written muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #14
Smart kings figured out long ago that tolerating (some) public display of dissent creates loyalty leveymg Mar 2012 #24
doubleplusgood The Stranger Mar 2012 #15
Check out, if you haven't, a BBC documentary series called "Century of the Self" deutsey Mar 2012 #22
correct IMO lunasun Mar 2012 #26
I don't know... UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2012 #10
Hmmm longship Mar 2012 #11
I'm very cynical and not one to believe in woo of any kind. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2012 #12
Please don't be cynical longship Mar 2012 #16
Here's one you'll like. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2012 #19
Randi is the real deal longship Mar 2012 #20
He's great. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2012 #21
Even a well known skeptic as Richard Feynman usrname Mar 2012 #23
You would be surprised. zeemike Mar 2012 #27
Find a copy of Marat/Sade somewhere and watch it Recursion Mar 2012 #9
I think this is why psychotropic drugs are illegal such as LSD, Pot , Mescaline... etc Ichingcarpenter Mar 2012 #13
the onion boiled it down to humans looking at rectangles. pansypoo53219 Mar 2012 #17
The fnords! The fnords! I can see the fnords! malthaussen Mar 2012 #18
Dystopian sci-fi is a reaction to the author's own world. McCamy Taylor Mar 2012 #25
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