Tag: huxley
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Peace Revolution: Episode055 – Only Wisdom Is Freedom
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sidney lumet, director of ‘network’ & ’12 angry men’, dies at 86
acclaimed director’s films explored social issues from cbsnews: Acclaimed filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who died today at the age of 86, left a legacy of classic films, many of which dealt with crime and justice – “12 Angry Men,” “The Anderson Tapes,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Murder on the Orient Express,” “Night Falls on Manhattan,” to…
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ridley scott & dicaprio travel to ‘brave new world’
flashback: ‘brave new world’ for hollywood*from reuters: Ridley Scott is going back to the futurism. The “Blade Runner” director is joining forces with Leonardo DiCaprio to take on one of the most highly regarded dystopian works of literature, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” Both are producing the Universal project, which DiCaprio would tentatively star in…
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june 8, 1949: orwell’s big brother 60yrs later
from wired: Sixty years ago today, Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. It’s official: In the face of the monolithic state, the little guy has no chance at all. George Orwell’s dystopian novel, one to stand alongside Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a towering work of futuristic pessimism, posits a grim society where the government is…
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corbett report: episode088 – you are being programmed
from corbett report: We’ve talked about Edward Bernays and we know all about propaganda, but there’s more to media control than corporate advertising. Public opinion and attitudes are shaped through the media we consume, from television and movies to books and music. Join us this week as we explore some of the TV shows and…
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‘Brave New World’ for Hollywood
from london times: When Leonardo DiCaprio was a young boy, he used to play hide-and-seek in the overgrown gardens of a Hollywood Hills mansion owned by the family of the visionary British author Aldous Huxley. Now, 30 years later, the star of Titanic and The Aviator is paying back the hospitality by putting his Hollywood…
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the future has caught up with us
from paul craig roberts: John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early – in vitro…