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Aldous Huxley

Distinguished British author Aldous Huxley is best known for penning Brave New World. He also wrote many other novels, short stories and essays. In the late '30s he became a Hollywood screenwriter, staying through the mid-1940s and collaborating on... MORE

Distinguished British author Aldous Huxley is best known for penning Brave New World. He also wrote many other novels, short stories and essays. In the late '30s he became a Hollywood screenwriter, staying through the mid-1940s and collaborating on numerous scripts such as Jane Eyre (1944). ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi LESS

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Aldous Huxley Speaks University California Berkeley ........ Camp FEMA, and Social Control predictions, our present from the past ...... our road determined by bygone thinkers, for better or worse !!! ???? He was one of the seminal figures of 20th century literature. Born in England in 1894, he was the grandson of Thomas Huxley, a biologist who influenced Darwin, (Darwin's grandfather wrote "the book" before Darwin) ...and the great nephew of Matthew Arnold During the 1930s Huxley actively crusaded on behalf of pacifism. It was pointless to meet militarism with might, he believed: wars were only "won" by bankers and manufacturers. Moreover, society's emphasis on competition and success was at the root of war, Huxley argued, and peace could only be achieved by repudiating these values. Huxley's views were influenced by a close friend, Gerald Heard, who urged individuals to seek world peace through meditation "to cure their own inner conflict." Alas ... we see, from many areas of literature &science fiction, present day conditions arise .. Life in the narrow lane built by Commerce Huxley died on November 22, 1963 (the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy) just as he had lived: in an experiment of expanding consciousness. He battled throat cancer for several years, so on his deathbed he was unable to speak. By writing a note, he asked his second wife, Laura, to administer LSD to him. She honoured his wishes and also engaged in a ceremonial farewell to ...
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