{"id":4543,"date":"2010-05-14T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T04:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2010-05-14T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T04:34:20","slug":"aldus-huxley-narrates-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/05\/14\/aldus-huxley-narrates-brave-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldus Huxley Narrates Brave New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/brave_new_world_cover_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4544\" title=\"brave_new_world_cover_1\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/brave_new_world_cover_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/brave_new_world_cover_1.jpg 648w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/brave_new_world_cover_1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a>This is an LP of a 1957 recording of Aldus Huxley narrating his science fiction masterpiece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060850523?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=candlestorie-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060850523\">Brave New World.<\/a> The music is by Bernard Herrmann.\u00a0 Of course, it&#8217;s not really the book.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 1 hour radio dramatization.\u00a0 The book is a frightening look at a future of genetic breeding and an anesthetized\u00a0 population of perfectly content people without desires.\u00a0 They are kept uninformed and comfortable so that they will remain peaceful and easy to control by a ruling order.\u00a0 They are made to cherish their servitude and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Huxley believed that George Orwell&#8217;s vision of the future in 1984 was too extreme and that oppression of large populations would be watered down into something resembling pleasure and entertainment.\u00a0 They were both partly right.<\/p>\n<p>So read Huxley&#8217;s book and think about the world around you and how little is really expected of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recordbrother.typepad.com\/imagesilike\/2005\/03\/a_brave_new_wor.html\">Listen to Side 1 of the Brave New World LP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recordbrother.typepad.com\/imagesilike\/2005\/03\/brave_new_world.html\">Listen to Side 2 of the Brave New World LP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an LP of a 1957 recording of Aldus Huxley narrating his science fiction masterpiece, Brave New World. The music is by Bernard Herrmann.\u00a0 Of course, it&#8217;s not really the book.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 1 hour radio dramatization.\u00a0 The book is a frightening look at a future of genetic breeding and an anesthetized\u00a0 population of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,81],"tags":[1126,2484],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-stories-on-the-web","category-science-fiction","tag-brave-new-world","tag-science-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}