Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1 of 3)

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Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (2 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUTEOY1hre4

Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (3 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDPnwkU9DA

Interesting take on new ways of totalitarianism, from one of the great sci-fi writers. Interview is from the 50's, I think.
You can read his most famous novel, Brave New World, online here:
http://www.hedweb.com/huxley/bnw/one.html

In a letter to George Orwell in 1949, congratulating him on the accomplishment of the novel 1984, Huxley wrote:

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley