{"id":8782,"date":"2012-09-28T20:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:07:59","slug":"aldous-huxleys-impersonal-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/aldous-huxleys-impersonal-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldous Huxley&#8217;s &#8220;Impersonal Forces&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TQZ-2iMUR0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cImpersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u2013 Aldous Huxley, Preface to\u00a0A Brave New World<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe price of freedom is eternal vigilance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/26\/aldous-huxley-mike-wallace-1958-interview\/\">Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley: A Rare, Prophetic 1958 Interview by Mike Wallace | Brain Pickings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theyellowbrickroadfreeblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/01\/mind-control-theories-and-techniques-used-by-mass-media\/\">http:\/\/theyellowbrickroadfreeblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/01\/mind-control-theories-and-techniques-used-by-mass-media\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImpersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, &#8230; <a title=\"Aldous Huxley&#8217;s &#8220;Impersonal Forces&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/aldous-huxleys-impersonal-forces\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aldous Huxley&#8217;s &#8220;Impersonal Forces&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,31,39,9,14,17,19],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-media-communication","category-philosophy","category-science","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-2hE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15664,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/avoiding-secularocity\/","url_meta":{"origin":8782,"position":0},"title":"Avoiding Secularocity","author":"Limbic","date":"May 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The word religiosity means \"excessively religious\". 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