Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley
#aldoushuxley — Public Fediverse posts
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“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own #self. Your own self,” he repeated. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you’ve worked on your own corner.” - #AldousHuxley,
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“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born—the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/09/22/every-individual-is-at-once-the-beneficiary-and-the-victim-of-the-linguistic-tradition-into-which-he-has-been-born-the-beneficiary-inasmuch-as-language-gives-access-to-the-accumulated-record/ #access #accumulatedRecords #actualThings #aldousHuxley #bedevils #belief #beneficiary #BiographyMemoir #book #born #BuddhismGeneral #concepts #confirms #conscience #consciousness #ConsciousnessThoughtPhilosophy #data #essays #everyIndividual #experience #HallucinogeNes #HallucinogenicDrugs #Hallucinogens #HarperPerennialModernClassics #history #IndividualPhilosophers #language #LifeSciencesNeuroscience #linguisticTradition #meditations #Mescaline #MindBody #mysticism #MysticismHistory #MysticismeHistoire #nature #onlyAwareness #otherPeoples #PersonalMemoirs #Peyote #philosophy #PhilosophyBuddhist #PhilosophyIndividualPhilosophers #PHILOSOPHYMindBody #PhilosophyReligious #PhilosophyGeneral #PopularPsychologyHistory #psychology #quote #reducedAwareness #Religious #ScienceTechnology #selfHelp #senseOfReality #Spirituality #SpiritualityReligion #victim #visions #words -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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“The fact that men derive little benefit from the lessons of history is the most important lesson history teaches us.”
Aldous Huxley
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:vz206: CDU-Familienministerin will Zugang zum Internet strenger Alterskontrolle unterwerfen! :vz206:
Man kommt kaum noch hinterher, was diese Bundesregierung an gesetzlichen Einschränkungen plant: Informationsfreiheit, Datenschutz und nun CDU-Ministerin Prien.
@netzpolitik_feed schreibt dazu: "Die von der Familienministerin skizzierte Regulierung geht weiter: Die Rede ist vom „Zugang“ zu Plattformen. Sollte damit wirklich der Zugriff auf ein Online-Angebot gemeint sein, beträfe das – anders als in Australien – auch Teile einer Plattform, für die man keinen Account braucht.
Betroffen wären zudem nicht nur ausgewählte, große Plattformen wie in Australien, sondern Online-Angebote in der Breite, sofern sie nicht nachweisen, dass sie für eine bestimmte Altersgruppe geeignet sind. Prien spricht hier von einem „gesetzlichen Erlaubnisvorbehalt“.
Vermutlich gehört bei dieser @Bundesregierung George Orwells ''1984" ebenso zur Bettlektüre wie Aldous Huxleys 'A brave new world'.
Das permanente Dauerfeuer aus dem Kanzleramt und anderen Ministerien führt zur Ermüdung der Zivilgesellschaft, soll es vermutlich auch, denn sich gegen alle staatlichen An- und Übergriffe adäquat zu verteidigen droht eben diese Zivilgesellschaft heillos zu überfordern.
Dieser Wahnsinn muss endlich gestoppt werden!
#netzpolitik #prien #KarinPrien #prienhasstkinder #Bundesregierung #orwell1984 #orwell #AldousHuxley #huxley #uberwachungsstaat #Uberwachung #polizeistaat #widerstand #zivilgesellschaft #stopptdenwahnsinn #freitag #freitagabend #deutschland #innenpolitik #eu #vonderleyen
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“It often happens that #reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular #wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished …” - #AldousHuxley
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Am Montag, 7. September 2026, trifft sich der Binger Literaturkreis „BIN Lesen“ um 19:00 Uhr in der Bücherei³ Bingen. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht der berühmte dystopische Roman „Schöne neue Welt“ von Aldous Huxley. #sfcd #bingen #phantastik #lesen #literatur #aldoushuxley #bravenewworld
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Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/18/moonlight/
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Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/18/moonlight/
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"I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. “The first thing,” I said, “is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.” But this was not enough for my young friend.
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I did my best to reply to these questions — as non-committally, of course, as I could. And as the young man still looked rather disappointed, I volunteered a final piece of advice, gratuitously. “My young friend,” I said, “if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.”
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Aldous Huxley; Sermon in cats
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https://www.europesays.com/se/332672/ Förträngda minnen, hjärntvätt och piller – myterna om psyket ändras över tid. #AldousHuxley #ArkivX #Entertainment #psykologi #SE #Serier #SvDBerättande:Kultur #Svenska #Sverige #Sweden #Swedish #Underhållning
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Ficção científica: O Brasil encara seu presente
Crítica de arte especializada em obras distópicas traça panorama do gênero no país. Novas éticas e estéticas – como o Amazofuturismo – emergem a partir dos territórios. Suscitam caminhos para reimaginar o amanhã, sem ceder ao realismo capitalistahttps://outraspalavras.net/poeticas/ficcao-cientifica-o-brasil-encara-seu-presente/
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Have People Changed?
Taking a look at how people may have changed since Covid.https://lynnefisher.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/have-people-changed/
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El espejo de Huxley en la sociedad actual
La novela Un mundo feliz, publicada por Aldous Huxley en 1932, ofrece un reflejo sumamente exacto de las dinámicas sociales y tecnológicas que configuran el planeta en pleno año 2026. A diferencia de otras distopías que imaginaban el control social a través de la fuerza bruta y la opresión física, esta obra visualizó un modelo donde la dominación se ejerce por medio del placer, el consumo desmedido y la distracción constante. La sociedad contemporánea muestra una asombrosa coincidencia con esta visión, en la que los ciudadanos entregan de forma voluntaria su privacidad y su capacidad de análisis crítico a cambio de comodidades digitales y gratificación instantánea a través de las pantallas.
El uso de algoritmos avanzados para moldear los gustos y comportamientos de la población se asemeja al condicionamiento de la novela, operando de manera silenciosa para estandarizar el pensamiento colectivo y reducir la disidencia. Las redes sociales privativas como Twitter, Facebook, tik Tok, Instagram, etcétera, así como las plataformas privativas de entretenimiento como Netflix, como YouTube o Spotify funcionan de forma similar al soma, la sustancia ficticia utilizada para evadir cualquier atisbo de tristeza, ansiedad o confrontación con la realidad. Hoy en día, el malestar emocional se mitiga con ráfagas continuas de dopamina digital y un consumo acelerado de productos, lo que adormece la empatía y desvía la atención de los problemas estructurales de la comunidad global. La trivialización de los vínculos afectivos y la búsqueda de la satisfacción inmediata han transformado la cultura moderna en un espacio donde lo superficial desplaza de forma sistemática a lo profundo.
La producción y el diseño de la vida a través de herramientas biotecnológicas, que en el siglo XX parecían ciencia ficción, son realidades actuales mediante la edición genética y la reproducción asistida programada. El peligro advertido por Huxley no radica en el avance científico en sí, sino en su utilización para despojar al ser humano de su individualidad y de su derecho a experimentar la complejidad de la existencia, incluyendo el dolor y la duda. Al observar el comportamiento de las masas en todo el mundo, resulta evidente que la comodidad y el entretenimiento masivo se han consolidado como los principales mecanismos de control social, confirmando que la sumisión más difícil de romper es aquella que se acepta con una sonrisa.
— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso
Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot
#PensamientoCritico #Literatura #AldousHuxley #Sociedad #Distopía #Sociología #Privacidad
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#visualart #Photo #photography #fotografie #fotografia #ficciones #fictions #poesía #poetics #NoToWar #color #colors #colours #couleurs #artberlin #artlondon #artparis #artmontreal #artbasel #artnewyork #artbilbao #artbarcelona #soma #Huxley #AldousHuxley
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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.” - #AldousHuxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Ignorance #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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The random Wiki of the Day for Sunday, 21 June 2026, is Aldous Huxley.
Listen to the new episode here: https://wikioftheday.com/wotdep.php?pod=random&epnum=3335
See our archives or subscribe here: https://wikioftheday.com
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The bit that you skip #171: Michael Nyman – The Arrival
Andrew Niccol is a director with two amazing, underrated films. One is Lord of War, the Nicolas Cage vehicle from 2005 with tremendous sequences, brutal dialogue, and a swift soundtrack.
The other one is Gattaca, a sadly unseen masterpiece of science fiction. Taking a cue from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Robert Heinlein’s Beyond this horizon, Gattaca’s deceptively sleek, beautiful society is a cold hearted dystopia. People can select and “optimise” the future of their children. Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is a man who wants nothing but travel to the stars, but his heart condition renders him as a “low class citizen”. Jerome (Jude Law) is perfect in all senses, but his life had no meaning and after an accident (which is later revealed to be a suicide attempt), he plots to let Vincent take his place on the space program.
What follows is Vincent’s ultra diligent routine to avoid detection as an “invalid” (a person born naturally), using Jerome’s “valid” (an in vitro baby) identity through the clever use of fake fingertips filled with blood and preserved urine samples.
Alan Arkin is a brutal detective hot on the trail of a murder and his little onscreen time is perfect. Uma Thurman shines as Irene, Vincent’s love interest, and the usually solid Xander Berkeley has a short but vital role on the movie.
Michael Nyman’s compositions are minimalistic and heartfelt. The arrival, with its wistful violin and piano accents is sorrowful, with a slight glint of hope peppered. Its sister composition, The departure, carries the motifs and delivers a dash of happiness with its crescendo. Nyman is always a “less is more” composer and both Gattaca and its soundtrack deserve your time. Proper science fiction. Proper music.
-Sam J. Valdés López
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLqTy0zDCxg
#AlanArkin #AldousHuxley #EthanHawke #Gattaca #JudeLaw #MichaelNyman #RobertHeinlein #ScienceFiction #TheArrival #UmaThurman #XanderBerkeley -
Le déclin de la lecture face à l’avénement des écrans marque-t-il la fin de l’ère démocratique ?
EnquêteSi les angoisses d’affaiblissement des facultés de l’esprit face aux nouvelles technologies ne datent pas d’hier, la révolution numérique et l’ #intelligenceartificielle laissent entrevoir la fin de la civilisation du livre.
« Orwell craignait ceux qui interdiraient les livres. Huxley redoutait qu’il n’y ait même plus besoin d’interdire les livres car plus personne n’aurait envie d’en lire. (…) #GeorgeOrwell craignait qu’on nous cache la vérité. #AldousHuxley redoutait que la vérité ne soit noyée dans un océan d’insignifiance.
#LeMonde #ValetineFaure #mastolivre #bookstodon #civilisationdulivre #livre
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Blog: What Does it Mean to be a Savage?
One of the themes in Brave New World is what it truly means to be a savage. The hero of Brave New World is a character named John, who grew up on an Indian reservation in New Mexico. His mother, Linda, came from London, where the people are “civilized.” However, her idea of civilization is filled with soma (a drug that appears to act as a sort of opiate), free sex, overconsumption, and every vice imaginable, obeyed immediately. Meanwhile, the “savages” of the reservation where John grew up look down upon those things and the people who engage in them. John thinks that mindset is better and more moral, thus when he’s brought to London, he’s so disturbed by what he sees that in the end, he kills himself. He recognizes that he was never the savage; the people of “civilization” were.
According to Mirriam-Webster, “savage” means to be untamed, or “lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings.” By this definition, a savage would be animalistic in their desires. If they want to sleep with someone, they do it. If they want to pig out on food or buy ridiculous amounts of something, there’s no moral guide stopping them. Any desire that they have must be fulfilled as soon as possible.
In Huxley’s Brave New World, we see the “civilized” people acting like this. There are no moral restraints on anyone in this world. The only unspoken rule is not to do anything that would place morality on the shoulders of the people. This is why the government of this world does whatever it can to destroy the old way of life and keep people from ever interacting with it. The more animalistic people are, the easier they are to control.
Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the “savages” are mostly Indians who haven’t conformed to the new way of life. They work to keep the old traditions alive. Thus, the government agrees to let them live, as long as they stay on the reservation.
Ironically, though the Indians are called “savages” and painted as such in the brave, new world, their actions speak otherwise. Overall, their civilization practices restraint because they have morals. Yes, some of their practices are barbaric, such as flogging themselves as a sign of bravery. However, they try not to drink copious amounts, they have monogamous relationships, raise children, and don’t accept hedonism as a good thing. In fact, Linda is thoroughly hated by the wives in the reservation because she’s a drunken prostitute who steals their men. Except for the guys that have slept with her, everyone dislikes her for her immoral ways.
Further, the people in Brave New World have very different views of goodness and beauty. In civilization, “art” is whatever happens to satisfy one’s sexual desires. That’s why most of the “feelies” (movies you can literally feel) are extremely pornographic with very little plot. Meanwhile, when John the Savage arrives in London, he is very well read in Shakespeare. He loves it because while Shakespeare’s plays often display the depravity of Man in his fallen state, he recognizes the beauty of humanity because there’s a higher morality. Thus, the struggle between Man wickedness and his capacity for good appeals to John.
This is a sign of civilization, as a civilized person strives for goodness. A savage strives not for beauty, but what satisfies his base desires.
The savages in Brave New World are not the people living on the reservation. The true savages are those living in the “civilized” world, ruled by rampant hedonism. They may be easy to control, and it may have led to a peaceful world, but ultimately, they have no humanity. They lost it and became no better than intelligent apes. However, those living on the reservation are the truly civilized ones because they kept their humanity. They know what it is to struggle against the world and themselves. They acknowledge a higher morality that goes outside of themselves to live by. Thus, though they may live in squalor and have some backwards practices, they don’t deserve to be called savages.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Este lumea lui Huxley atât de diferită de a noastră? Dacă s-ar trasa o linie temporală între vremea lui Huxley și epoca Minunatei Lumi Noi, se vede cu ușurință cât de bine mergem pe calea noastră – dacă nu suntem deja acolo. 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/iaujs 👈 #închisoaremintală #AldousHuxley #Avertisment #condiționareapsihologică #cultura #Demnitatea #distopialuiHuxley #științăfărăDumnezeu #Hipersexualitatea #ipocrite #MinunataLumeNouă #Opresiune #prizonieri #pro...
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“Every individual is biologically unique and unlike all other individuals. Freedom is therefore a great good, tolerance a great virtue and regimentation a great misfortune.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/06/02/every-individual-is-biologically-unique-and-unlike-all-other-individuals-freedom-is-therefore-a-great-good-tolerance-a-great-virtue-and-regimentation-a-great-misfortune/ #aldousHuxley #biologicallyUnique #book #Classics #everyIndividual #fiction #Freedom #greatGood #greatMisfortune #greatVirtue #historyTheoryOfPolitics #individuals #Literary #politicalCommentaryOpinion #quote #regimentation #sociologyOfSocialTheory #tolerance #unlikeAllOther -
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Intellectuals #Sex
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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Credit:
@think&exist for Huxley & Chomsky quote.I added Lennon's verse to Working Class Hero.
#3WiseMenDespised #AldousHuxley
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Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/24/moonlight/
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Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/24/moonlight/
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Republicans have discovered their SOMA.
MAGA’s favorite psychedelic
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/488995/trump-rogan-ibogaine-executive-order-psychedelics-ptsd#Ibogaine #OpiateForMasses #BraveNewWorld #AldousHuxley #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
-- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Advertising #Capitalism #Craving
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https://www.europesays.com/fi/244324/ Kohuttu ja kielletty elokuva The Devils palaa leikkaamattomana levitykseen #AldousHuxley #CannesinElokuvajuhlat #Entertainment #FI #Finland #Finnish #KenRussell #KiellettyElokuva #OliverReed #sensuuri #Suomi #TheDevils #TheDevilsOfLoudun #VanessaRedgrave #viihde
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Mindless malice
Even when one is crossing it at seventy miles an hour on a four-lane highway, the desert can seem formidable enough. To the forty-niners it was unmitigated hell. Men and women who are at her mercy find it hard to see in Nature and her works any symbols but those of brute power at the best and, at the worst, of an obscure and mindless malice.
~ Aldous Huxleyslip:4a1197.
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Know thyself
“Know thyself” is a piece of advice which is as old as civilization, and probably a great deal older. To follow that advice, a man must do more than indulge in introspection. If I would know myself, I must know my environment; for as a body, I am part of the environment, a natural object among other natural objects, and, as a mind, I consist to a great extent of my immediate reactions to the environment and of my secondary reactions to those primary reactions.
~ Aldous Huxleyslip:4a1177.
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Pseudo-knowledge
Zeal, dogmatism and idealism exist only because we are forever committing intellectual sins. We sin by attributing concrete significance to meaningless pseudo-knowledge; We sin in being too lazy to think in terms of multiple causation and indulging instead in over-simplification, over-generalization and over-abstraction; And we sin by cherishing the false but agreeable notion that conceptual knowledge and, above all, conceptual pseudo-knowledge are the same as understanding.
~ Aldous Huxleyslip:4a615.
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Concrete ignorance
Living amphibiously, half in fact and half in words, half in immediate experience and half in abstract notions, we contrive most of the time to make the worst of both worlds. We use language so badly that we became the slaves of our clichés and are turned either into conforming Babbits or into fanatics and doctrinairs. And we use immediate experience so badly that we become blind to the realities of our own nature and insensitive to the universe around us. The abstract knowledge which words bring us is paid for by concrete ignorance.
~ Aldous Huxleyslip:4a614.
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Always and everywhere silence
From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death—all the things that are fundamental, all the things that, to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed. The rest is always and everywhere silence. After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxleyslip:4a407.
#AldousHuxley #Quotes
