I also fell for this after reading Brave New World in high school. In 1966, it seemed like deep insight. Today, it is just laughable. Why do Pres. Obama and his high priests of chemical brainwashing even bother having press conferences? Where is the USSR? What happened to communist China? The world is more complex than Huxley knew. Brave New World was an interesting condemnation of automation society as seen from the viewpoint of 1928 when "Benito Hoover" seemed like the future made by "Our Ford" (sign of the T).

How did those great controllers fail?

Well, even if The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged had not been written, the world back then had a dedicated and intelligent liberal academe that resisted central control. In addition, a strong libertarian underground existed: Ayn Rand, Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, Leonard Reed, Clarence Carson, F. A. Hayek, Karl Popper...

Ultimately, as Ayn Rand explained in Atlas Shrugged, the Attila and Witch Doctor are powerless without the sanction of the victim. Remove that ... and here we are ...

BNW Revisted only gives evidence of the inherent failure of Alduous Huxley to think outside his own square.

Thanks.

Thanks for the video heads up!

Another great resource, which has Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" online is: http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/

There are several other titles there that may or may not be of interest to the members here.

That is a great find. Not only BNW - Revisited, but the entire original Brave New World is there, as well. Video of Huxley talking about BNW, is a great bonus.