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Huxleyan

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Adj.1.Huxleyan - of or relating to Thomas Huxley


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This Huxleyan vision of a UNESCO-stimulated "morality" gained new momentum during the 1990s (during the period it was supposedly undergoing reform), with the help of radical theologian Hans Kung and former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, the "Butcher of Afghanistan.
His is a Huxleyan Brave New World perspective in contrast to Lessig's Orwellian concerns.
If we wind up in some grim, Prozac addled, Huxleyan future, stripped of humanity, agency and soul or trapped in an Orwellian totalitarian regime complete with non stop surveillance and ruthless suppression of dissent or reduced to biological power sources plugged into a virtual reality Matrix in a world run by machines, it will most likely be because we made a lot of little choices along the way and by the time we got there it didn't seem so bad.
 
 
 
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