Aldous Huxley - The Ultimate Revolution 'Brave New World' (Berkeley Speech 1962)

Aldous Huxley, author of 'Brave New World', gives his speech "The Ultimate Revolution" at Cal Berkeley, 1962.

Books by Aldous Huxley:

[Skeptigal]

Rats pressing the "pleasure bar" = social media users checking for likes.

[kaptainkrampus]

9:25 Did he just say "scientific dictatorships of the future"? Whow! 60 years later, we have exactly that, don´t we?

[josephboyewa]

It's flabbergasting to me that a lot of people in this section see Huxley as some sort of visionary that actually wanted the best for humanity. Fabian Society anyone? Get your facts straight people and stop glorifying those who were an integral part of cooking this bs up. Damn it..

[ffemt]

“If you can get people to consent to their restrictions they would be much more controllable.” Ideed

[setto]

Enjoy this while you're still allowed to listen to it.

[elenastone]

Very important speech & yet 69, 852 views only for 4.5 years since it was published. Whereas some celebrities have 100 of millions of sad.

[johnhagan-zrpm]

1960s Aldous Huxley gives this lecture at Cal Berkeley
2020s Student holds up a placard at Cal Berkeley; "Free Speech = Hate Speech".

[Netanya-qb]

Listening in 2020... "Maybe your pessimism is justified!"
Quite.

[tombrunila]

At about 35:00 electrodes in the brain! This what Elon Musk has wet dreams about.

[soulmask]

4:55 "The controlling oligarchy who has always existed and presumably will always exist" And then they call you conspiracy theorists

[sarahc]

He's literally just described what I'm living through in Australia right now o.0

[ffemt]

“Scientific dictatorships of the future” indeed.

[kellyredgrove]

Knowing what is going on right now; I feel nauseous listening to this!

[citizenswain]

omg, i'm at 55 minutes and wanted to email to a friend. Big pharma anyone?

[ManInTheBigHat]

Questions from students in 1962: Intelligent, informed and articulate.
Questions from Students in 2019: "He said 'dictator!' He said, 'eugenics!'" He's not a writer! He's a Nazi!

[euphegenia]

I just read Brave New World for the first time. I think it’s my favorite English novel. So fascinating to now delve into Huxley’s speeches/talks on YouTube. Like someone else said, enjoy it while you can…

[HonzoRich]

@36:00min in, the audience laughs at their enslavement. The pleasure button has become the remote control, the mouse button, the swipe on a smartphone.

[maevtr]

He talks about pavlovian conditioning with the catalyst being stress in order to hypnotize/manipulate/control a population. Im sure its not the same kind of stress that would be caused by a world wide pandemic, a lock down of the entire world and its economy, being able to interact with other human beings, losing your job, super market shortages. Not that kind of stress. That would be crazy.

[chrisbayridge]

Anti-depressants and a generous line of credit :)

[perlefisker]

A woman finds it likely that the methods Huxley mentions abused by dictatorships are applied to democratic states and asks if he would like to comment on that. Huxley giggles and calls her pessimistic - the laughter of the audience is chilling and tells that there is absolutely nothing to laugh at.
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