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Aldous Huxley and Brave New World remembered

November 22 is a day commemorated for the death of JFK; and as a JFK conspiracy buff I had to mention it on my personal blog; however as fan of Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World, one of the books that inspired me and actually impacted my life I have to post a photo and tribute to Aldous Huxley visionary, author, a true prophet in the secular sense of the world portraying a future society that is reflected in today's not so Brave New World. The society he described in his book Brave New World foreshadowed a New World that describes the distortion of the English language and mind control by drugs and subliminal mind control by media before it was a reality. Brave New World was the most widely read but his other books, and I read them all were equally profound with a vision of the future of mankind's dehumanization of men and debasing of the human spirit, while this sounds bleak his novels still illustrate man's triumph and survival by the will of human spirit in a harsh Brave New World.
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Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous' father was the son ofThomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and the real-life headmaster of Rugby School who became a character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his work. Gerald Heard, a longtime friend, said that Huxley's ancestry "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations." ThroughoutBrave New World you can see evidence of an ambivalent attitude toward such authority assumed by a ruling class.

Like the England of his day, Huxley's Utopia possesses a rigid class structure, one even stronger than England's because it is biologically and chemically engineered and psychologically conditioned. And the members of Brave New World's ruling class certainly believe they possess the right to make everyone happy by denying them love and freedom.

Huxley's own experiences made him stand apart from the class into which he was born. Even as a small child he was considered different, showing an alertness, an intelligence, what his brother called a superiority. He was respected and loved--not hated--for these abilities, but he drew on that feeling of separateness in writing Brave New World. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson, both members of the elite class, have problems because they're different from their peers. Huxley felt that heredity made each individual unique, and the uniqueness of the individual was essential to freedom. Like his family, and like the Alphas of Brave New World, Huxley felt a moral obligation--but it was the obligation to fight the idea that happiness could be achieved through class-instituted slavery of even the most benevolent kind.