Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)
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Published 2011-09-28
All Comments (21)
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Remarkable that we must listen to an interview from 1958 to understand what's happening in 2021.
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Hard to believe that slow, deep, nuanced conversations like this were once normally broadcast on tv
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Absolutely brilliant.
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Fascinating interview. What most people in our society don't realise is that global corporate and political power relies on us all feeling inadequate and unhappy with ourselves. This is why wealth gaps are so useful to large companies. Advertising is their reminder to us that we're either not good enough or don't have enough to be fulfilled. It creates envy and longing, neither of which feed the sense of self positively.
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This interview was, of course, conducted back in a time when people still spoke in complete, coherent sentences.
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Observe how Mile Wallace, a journalist, is filmed from behind and not the focus of the interview. What a contrast to the talking heads and news "commentators" (more performers than journalists) today. In current times the interviewer is the celebrity/personality focused upon, rather than the expert being interviewed.
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Thank you so much for posting this extremely important interview. Astonishing how prescient Huxley and Orwell were.
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This must be the first time I've ever seen an interview with an actual conversation instead of chaotic arguments having no real agenda or purpose.
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Alan Watts on Huxley: "He was such a magnificent conversationalist that once, while I was having lunch with him in a San Francisco restaurant, all those at the adjoining tables fell silent to listen to him."
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"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left." Aldous Huxley
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We live in so many dystopian nightmares all at once. Men like Huxley were way ahead of the curve.
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Huxley is a genius. He understood in 1958, how the power of television and future technology (social media?) could control a population in a large western democracy.
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Incredible foresightful mind - "imagine television promoting the same message hour after hour, day after day".
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People are so utterly confused at this point, that they don't even know they're already living in this "brave new world".
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This guy's supposed to be so brilliant when it's OBVIOUS that he jumped into a time machine, traveled to 2022 to observe the U.S., and then traveled back to his own time. You're not fooling me, Dr. Huxley.
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"The passion for power is one of the most moving passions that exists"
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“You’re being persuaded below the level of choice and reason”. Spot on.
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When was the last time you heard an intelligent conversation like this for this kind of time on American network TV?
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Watching in 2023...I'm now worried, extremely worried.
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It's stunning that Mr Huxley could describe our current "corporate insanity" so long ago and so precisely. He's magnificent. Of course, he did write Brave New World, so it's more than a little scary (or should be).
