Aldous Huxley seems to be a very wise and enlightened man. I am not sure when this interview took place but I have to say, it is pretty obvious to me that we, as a society did not heed his words in time. He spoke about valuing and cultivating such essential traits as intelligence and goodwill; charity and love. With the boom of population, technology and knowledge setting the world into a chronic revolution, it seems these core values are no longer a priority. It appears that only a select few consider intelligence a virtue worth pursuing, not to mention charity and goodwill. Huxley hypothesized that we would be trading these values for pride, nationalism and militarism and the result would be chaotic. I think this is evident in our world today.
We live in a chaotic, conflicted world that very few people have interest in changing. It's too much work, "we are just a few people, what kind of change can we actually make?" Some don't even think anything needs to be changed. They revel in the 'more, more, more', bigger is better, get to the top any way you can attitude. Like Plato's Allegory of the Cave, recent generations do not know any other world, so they are content in the darkness and the shadows and would not even think to leave this realm to "see the light".
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