Love Your Servitude – Aldous Huxley & George Orwell.
Aldous Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism and mass surveillance. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
The profound animation from 12:30 to 15:45 of this video is from “IN-SHADOW – A Modern Odyssey – Animated Short Film” by Lubomir Arsov
The full Aldous Huxley audio is from his lecture at UC Berkeley in 1962.
Off topic or maybe not…
Tucker is laying waste to the democrat party right this minute.
If you can catch his opening tonight it’s well worth it!
Ever read “Crome Yellow?”
Don’t.
It sucks.
If it was the first thing you read of Huxley, you wouldn’t read another.
Sort of like “Of Human Bondage” by Maugham – sucked – but he did much better.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Not positive but pretty sure that I am not doing servitude.
Watched other masked buffoons today. I just laughed.
Aldous Huxley, C S Lewis and JFK all died on the same day of Nov. 22, 1963.
Dad handed me “Crome Yellow” some years back and said something to the effect, “Uhh, it’s dogshit.”
I handed Dad, “Of Human Bondage”, some years later, and I very much enjoy much of Muagham’s work, but I probably said the same thing, “I don’t know if you want to waste any time with this, but it’s dogshit.”
Maugham! Fuck, I can’t even spell the dude’s name.
Outside of, “Of Human Bondage”, Maugham is brilliant.
But that was fucking awful.
We’re all part of a system but we can be independent in thinking and to a degree actions. But now the system is changing and trying to change us and though we were born into a type of servitude it is becoming more and more demanding and we are becoming less and less willing to comply.
I want to keep what freedoms I have known in my lifetime and give more to my descendants.
The number of people with the “Slave Mentality” vastly outnumbers those without it. And the reason that many accept this condition is its comfort. They are only at peace with someone telling them when to wake up, when to eat, and when to go to bed. They are slovenly workers because there’s no downside. As the chinks used to say “Workers make $18 a month and the unemployed make $19 – because they don’t have to pay bus fare to go to work.” In a country where (taking advantage of all the bennies) an unemployed person can make $60,000 a year, there ain’t much point in the slugs working.
Probably why the prisons are all full, too.
Wobbles the mind.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
My servitude consists of feeding dogs & cats.
More of a labor of love, really.