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To: MtnClimber

“From a neighbouring shrubbery emerged a nurse, leading by the hand a small boy, who howled as he went. An anxious-looking little girl trotted at her heels.

“What’s the matter?” asked the Director.

The nurse shrugged her shoulders. “Nothing much,” she answered. “It’s just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play. I’d noticed it once or twice before. And now again to-day. He started yelling just now …”

“Honestly,” put in the anxious-looking little girl, “I didn’t mean to hurt him or anything. Honestly.”

“Of course you didn’t, dear,” said the nurse reassuringly.

“And so,” she went on, turning back to the Director, “I’m taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. Just to see if anything’s at all abnormal.”

- Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” Chapter 3


28 posted on 06/18/2022 5:38:40 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: P.O.E.
I heard an interview of Huxley not long before he died (ironically on November 22, 1963) in which he was profoundly prophetic on the direction society was headed.

Michael Savage ran this clip on one of his shows shortly before he went to the podcast only format.

36 posted on 06/18/2022 6:58:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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