Brave New World — In Our Time, Apr. 9, 2009

Brave New World — In Our Time, Apr. 9, 2009
I think I have to read this book again. It’s been at least 15 years since I first read it, and I recall the general outline, but few of the specifics. I had forgotten entirely about the character Mustapha Mond until the guests began discussing him. The guests talk in depth about how the book is neither a dystopia nor a utopia and that the ambiguity is part of its lasting legacy. I think I have it on the shelf somewhere.

Guests:


Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

The Tempest

Prospero

Hypnopedia

Podsnaps Technique

H.L. Mencken

Charlie Chaplain

Robert Nichols

Mack Sennett

Thomas Henry Huxley

Eugenics

Francis Galton

Social Darwinism

Henry Ford

Model T

D.H. Lawrence

Taos Pueblo

Freud

Havelock Ellis

erbium-doped fiber amplifierHuxley’s The Island

William James

“James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience>дивани

Great Crash 1929

George