Comments on: Aldous Huxley has a little talk with you

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:31:26 +0000

I was citing Huxley’s stated concerns.

Propaganda and deception starts with half the truth, and it goes down hill from there.

By pointing out the world’s population decline (which is due to K vs R reproduction strategies and other economic realities) and pretending that this was the truth applied across the world, the details were sacrificed for the narrative.

By: ArtfldgrsGhost

ArtfldgrsGhost — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:05:21 +0000

his family was a bunch of pips, and his writing was a lot about his brothers projects and end results…

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:57:50 +0000

I live in South Carolina, and I’ve noticed a LOTS of Trump signs in the yard of houses owned by blacks who very likely have voted reliably Democrat for the past many, many, many years now. Which tells me: they don’t like Bernie or Hillary, like what Trump is saying, and it’s not necessarily “Republicans” voting for the “Republican” candidate.

By: Frog

Frog — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:22:42 +0000

Ignore details? Moi?
I was citing Huxley’s stated concerns.
That we in the Free (ahem) World are besieged by propaganda 24/7/365 would come as no surprise to Huxley.
The question that comes to mind is whether Huxley would be surprised by our craven submission today or not. I think not.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:38:46 +0000

Except for the overpop, he is right on.

Don’t ignore the details. Welfare families and one parent households are over popping, and so is Islam.

The causes are broken down so finitely, that you can’t look at it from the human population rate. Go down into the sub cultures.

The Art of Propaganda has gone far beyond the trick they tried with subliminal messaging. But of course, only humans who have a significant number of man hours in the field would know what’s really going on. To others, they are incapable of using it, but they are capable of learning how to be used by it, which is similar enough to comprehend. Even to a person that can’t conduct propaganda techniques like Hollywood, they may eventually figure out that they aren’t immune to it and how much they are affected by it.

By: Frog

Frog — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 05:46:49 +0000

A nice statement in wiki about this interview (thanks, Neo): “Huxley had deeply felt apprehensions about the future the developed world might make for itself. From these, he made some warnings in his writings and talks. In a 1958 televised interview conducted by journalist Mike Wallace, Huxley outlined several major concerns: the difficulties and dangers of world overpopulation; the tendency toward distinctly hierarchical social organisation; the crucial importance of evaluating the use of technology in mass societies susceptible to wily persuasion; the tendency to promote modern politicians, to a naive public, as well-marketed commodities.[23]

Except for the overpop, he is right on. We few have known that and done what? More importantly, what have our Dear Leaders, sworn to protect and defend and uphold the Constitution, done? At local, state and Federal levels?
Which is why Scalia’s loss is so very profound, despite the wonders of his son Paul’s Homily at the Mass today. Those of you who are not Catholics may wish to reconsider.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:29:09 +0000

miklos:

“Do it to Julia!” has long been a running joke among my in-laws (ex-husband’s family). In the book I know it’s not the least bit funny, but in life it can be quite handy.

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:44:58 +0000

I’m going to reread BRAVE NEW WORLD. A few months ago, I reread 1984 — and some of it’s still going round and round in my head.

“Do it to Julia…”

By: sdferr

sdferr — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:13:36 +0000

Here's a link to a lecture given by Max Weber in 1918, titled "Politics as a Vocation", in which among other undertakings Weber details the growing role of journalism and propaganda in politics. He sees fairly far, this fellow Weber. It's worth a read.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:35:11 +0000

Zombie makes a point of photographing the Communists, racists, and moslem radicals that the Pravda Media airbrushes out of leftwing protests.

See especially this thread: “Anatomy of a Photograph”:

http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_september_24_2005/anatomy_of_a_photograph/

It starts with what the leftwing San Francisco Chronicle shows the public, then as you scroll down, you see what Zombie captured. . . .