Brave New World

“like 1984 and uh brave new world yeah you guys got the joke”

“however there's an equally as good book brave new world by albus huxley okay now that's x-rated”

“I mean, hey, instead of watching the ninth NFL football game that weekend, turn it off and listen to an audio book, read the Gulag Archipelago, read 1984, read Brave New World, go deeper.”

“instead of watching the ninth NFL football game that weekend, turn it off and listen to an audiobook, read the Gulag Archipelago, read 1984, read Brave New World, go deeper, that it, the regime, hates an informed population.”

“Read 'The Gulag Archipelago,' read '1984,' read 'Brave New World.' Go deeper; that is the regime's hate an informed population.”

“And so he wrote Brave New World, which is all kind of about this idea of the over excesses of commercial society.”

“so one is brave new world by aldous huxley um and it's kind of incredible how prescient he was about”

“so one is brave new world by aldous huxley um and it's kind of incredible how prescient he was about like what this what what a brave new world might be like”

“Of course, "The Trial" is a work of fiction, but I think it is often useful to go to the surreal world of literature, even of the over-the-top dystopian variety like "1984," "Animal Farm," "Brave New World," "The Trial," "The Castle," "Metamorphosis," even "The Plague" by Albert Camus...”

“Yeah, you've actually spoken about and described China as more akin to the dystopian world, a brave new world, the 1984, which is really interesting to think about, I think about that a lot of recently reread, over the past couple of years we read 'Brave New World' a couple of times, and also '1984'.”

“I think about that a lot of recently reread, over the past couple of years we read "Brave New World" a couple of times, and also "1984".”

“So, one of the dystopian worlds is described by "Brave New World".”

“it's Brave New World”

“Oh, this computer is sitting on one of them, 'Brave New World.'”

“things like "Brave New World", where, you know, the squirrels are fed dopamine and they're all like doing some kind of fun activity and sort of the fire, the soul of humanity is lost because of the drug that's fed to it.”

“Like even with 1984, it allowed me to contrast with Brave New World, and how that 1984 was politicized...”

“I'm reading a bunch of books one of them is Brave New World where they remove Contra you know where they remove the ups and downs of life um partially through drugs but over over sexualization all that kind of stuff”

“well there was a book about that right the brave new world you know make everybody happy take your soma”

“I am I can't work out if we're closer to 1984 or Brave New World. It feels like some awful love child of both. I think it's Brave New World.”

“very good brave new world”

“i mean the aldous huxley and brave new world yeah brave the world i i it really had really really deep impact on me”

“Aldous Huxley's brave new world I think it is the most prophetic book of the 20th century and the most profound discussion of happiness in modern Western philosophy”

“i mean i think 1984 in these books brave new world they they're helpful in thinking like stuff can go wrong in non-obvious ways and it's like it's up to us to preserve it and it's like it's a responsibility”

“Have you read uh Huxley's Brave New World? Uh, no. So a lot a lot of people think that you know we are in this um Orwellian um 1984 but we are 100% in Brave New World. Brave New World basically I mean there's slight differences but essentially in and by the way he wrote this in the 30s one”

“Brave New World you've got the drugs to stimulate you and make you feel better or whatever 1984 you've got the government lock down and collusion and censorship it's a little bit of all of them”

“well I've read Brave New World too not the script to the new Captain America”

“tim won't talk about how brave new world is happening in real time sexualized kids world government”

“as we talk about these these dystopian novels 1984 brave new world fair fahrenheit 451 even handmaid's tale”

“there's so much in brave new world as well we're on the horizon of what's called the internet of bodies”

“it's like a brave new Fahrenheit 1984 for Vendetta exactly so uh Luke it's like you are here but I'm like I think he's missing one I think it's only he's only got three because you think about it's like you got 1984 you got big brother censorship spying surveillance you got Brave New World video games”

“that's Brave New World right I mean it's that and removing words well Brave New World was was keeping people locked down by Pleasures oh not pretty new world uh uh in 1984 1980 they start removing words so right instead of good and bad it's good and not good like but it's one where ungered or whatever that's good”

“i often say we in the context of reading say 1984 or brave new world or fairness 451 did everybody reading those just assume in those worlds”

“it's like all of these books that we used to read 1984 brave new world and ran it's all happening right now all at once like crashing into each other”

“so you mean aldous huxley's soma”

“and then I read 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World.”

“you know when huxley's Brave New World that went by the wayside and it was a sign of uh immorality to say no to anyone who asked you who offered a sexual invitation”

“The issue, however, is there's often an unholy blend of 1984 and Brave New World underlying the specifics of their invitation.”

“you know in in in uh brave new world in huxley's book it was considered immoral to reject anyone's sexual advances because it was prejudicial”

“you remember in in in uh brave new world in huxley's book it was considered immoral to reject anyone's sexual advances because it was prejudicial”

“I see on your bookshelf, I think the world is a lot closer to 'Brave New World' than it is to '1984.'”

“I see on your bookshelf, I think the world is a lot closer to "Brave New World" than it is to "1984".”

“um so i and what else is very useful is it's a lot i think we're a lot closer to brave new world than 1984. it's a lot easier to manipulate a population through pleasure than through force and through oppression”

“it's very orwellian and i've always maintained it's much closer to brave new world by aldous huxley where the elites rule not through force not through threats of force but by using pleasure”

“However, Aldis Huxley did write Brave New World, right? It's the Pepsi to the Coca-Cola of Orwell's 1984.”

“anyway, ethics aside, this is a brave new world. Shout out to Huxley. We don't know how far this is going to come to term. Thank you for the drum roll there, Dylan.”

“now we are on the cusp of a world that is both Brave to quote Al Watson Watson is is Watson is who defeated K I said deep blue and that's the chess one that's the chess one Watson was the quiz the quiz bot also by IBM though right that's correct yes so Ken Jennings versus Watson Casper off”

“No, it probably will go to Brave New World. What would be the question? Tell us about the drug called Soma.”

“(Elon) No, I mean Soma from Brave New World. It’s going to be like, oops, I’m really sorry.”

“Soma for Band New World is a different beast altogether. Now this Huxley's dystopian novel, Soma is a drug that plays a central role in society”

“He says, not just in brave new world, but he wrote another book people don't know about called the perennial philosophy.”

“so if you read Huxley not just brand new world but his other text he has an essay at the beginning of brand new world where he says that this is the culmination of all the Revolutions of the last several centuries and that culmination is in a strictly tiered technocratic Society where everybody's controlled and babies are born in”

“if you read Huxley not just brand new world but his other text he has an essay at the beginning of brand new world”

“Chapter 17 of Huxley’s Brave New World.”

“well i came to understand that this is a softer form and a different form a form that has more to do with aldous huxley's brave new world than with orwell's 1984. it is a totalitarianism built on comfort and status and well-being”

“and i brought my phone out and went to chapter 17 of huxley's brave new world where john the savage who confronts mustafa man the world controller of this perfect state where everybody all their needs are taken care of”

“if you look at brave new world you know what happens they get rid of mothers and they just make babies and machines”

“If uh you live in a world in Brave New World, the dystopian novel, the first thing they do is they raise children in incubators and they get rid of mothers.”

“actually brings to mind Huxley's brave new world because in brave new world the terrifying authoritarian state is obsessed with making people happy”

“Which actually brings to mind Huxley's brave new world because in brave new world the terrifying authoritarian state is obsessed with making people happy”

“then you've got um Brave New World was Plato's an an update of Plato's Republic”

“and he writes Brave New World and he tells us how it's going to happen”

“Brave New World and all of the children are gestated in pods and no one has any Joy”

“is the difference in States you describe like Brave New World”

“But he had criticized 'Brave New World' in reviews this like not having imagined a world of capitalism run wild like before...”

“And then the third volume is Huxley's 'Brave New World' and 'Brave New World Revisited.' And it was published in complex characters.”

“and not only will that increase the inequality in our society it will encode it permanently in our species which would just be a eugenic horror show like brave new world of the movie gattaca we don't want that to happen”

“rich people buying better genes for their kids than poor people is a horror that we have to evolve avoid just like in brave new world or gattaca”

“And then you have Aldis Huxley who wrote Brave New World in 32. His brother Julian Huxley was the head of the World Eugenic Society.”

“well in the book Brave New World I I think they called it talkies or whatever but like in the future everybody's going to be on SOS and the content that they would watch was basically like pornography with explosions like basically out of the movie Idiocracy you ever seen that movie”

“Brave New World by Aldis Huxley has risen to number nine”

“this is the 1984 this is the brave new world that we're living in”

“if you look at aldous huxley's brave new world the point is i mean we're always looking and and we do it in our podcast as well”

“between 1984 which is information constraint and Brave New World which is Overflow of entertainment and information about how we ended up in the Brave New World”

“That's my criticism of Brave New World, it's just poorly written.”

“huxley feared a world where we'd be drowned in irrelevance and distraction”

“Two of the great dystopian works of the 20th century were huxley's Brave New World”

“and one of the books that that is alluded to or discussed is Brave New World how does that come in”

“You know, in Huxley's 'Brave New World,' that went by the wayside, and it was a sign of immorality to say no to anyone who asked you or who offered a sexual invitation.”

“The experience machine doesn't exist. It's a thought experiment, but certainly Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about soma, a drug that that gives people, you know, just I don't know what we what would you call it? Bliss.”

“yeah the we had to read that book Brave New World it's coool that one kind of Tri me out”

“and so what they did is like oh we'll take some more W and we'll take some Huxley we'll blend it together in a massive s up so we can have massive amounts of power and control forever”

“and then it was also a major element within Aldous Huxley's brave new world which and that was based on that”

“and so if you look at brave new world i think we're seeing elements of that”

“see this is n this is the Brave New World by aldus Huxley right In that Society they deliberately reduce the oxygen on embryos”

“and and there's like a number of these that most people would like the you know 1984 Brave New World handmaid's taale like all of these”

“Brave New World which essentially talks about this sort of invetro gestation of of whole populations”

“but brave new world i think is so so pronounced in what we're going through right now”

“ya know in brave new world which I have to say I think about all the time as I read about China”

“It's like something out of, you know, Huxley's Brave New World.”

“whatever the case I find myself sad for the man and it occurs to me that my reaction is exactly what might be expected from a beta in the Brave New World”

“Everyone, you know, you and I were raised reading or. Well, and Alice Huxley and, and, you know, Robert Heinlein and Alexander Solzhenitsyn and, and all of these other books that were part of classical literature that was taught in every American classroom. It said the first step to totalitarianism is always begins with censorship.”

“before we do the song sheep the last thing be it says all was right to warn Us in Brave New World in 1984 and Aldous Huxley was right to warn us of the coming dystopia in in”

“well there was a book about that brave new world you know make everybody happy”

“one of the things I worry about and you know the dystopian view of I think the future is is Brave New World where people sit around taking this drug soma and medicating themselves”

“that book is required reading NSC 1984 and in Brave New World they're getting banned why because of predictive programming”

“Right, we'll be looking at Island and Brave New World, the sort of twins of speculative science fiction.”

“and she's reading Brave New World while she's waiting she practically reads the whole thing waiting in line for the passport office”

“it's the story of how aldous huxley the famous writer who wrote brave new world and a book called island which is actually his utopian vision the last book that he wrote which i highly recommend we've all read his dystopian vision”

“but we had forgotten that alongside orwell's dark vision there was another slightly older slightly less well-known equally chilling vision of aldous huxley's brave new world contrary to common belief even among the educated huxley and orwell did not prophecy the same thing orwell warns that we will become overwhelmed overcome by an externally imposed oppression”

“it's like it's almost like huxley and it's like brave new world have you read that chris yes”

“When everybody was talking about how we were headed towards 1984 or Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451, it was all of them.”

“Brave New World Fahrenheit 451 1984”

“it's a drug in Brave New World by aldes Huxley”

“that's like Soma and Brave New World or anything exactly you know the unwillingness to feel pain”

“coming from your keene and emmons podcast about cuties i'm reminded of the beginning of brave new world do you think we're heading in that direction where taboos are being broken for the sake of it”

“and the best version of yourself is is resistance in our modern day and age of tyranny that's uh shoved down our throats in a brave new world”