Word: huxleyism
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...Budding Showman Mike Todd Jr., 29, announced that he will produce next year's smelliest movie (The Scent of Mystery), using the Smell-O-Visiqn-process developed by a Swiss chemist under contract to the late Mike Todd Sr. Nearest yet to the "feelie" film envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (see BOOKS), the process is triggered by soundtrack blips, which release odors through a maze of pipes to the audience-30 odors in 90 minutes for The Scent of Mystery, including flowers, roasting chestnuts, brandy, coffee, shoe polish (the villain will be trapped by smell clues...
Small World (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). Edward (See It Now) Murrow begins his new series, an effort to bring the globe's great characters into the world's living rooms. The first show's cast: Jawaharlal Nehru, Aldous Huxley, Thomas E. Dewey...
...crowding of the planet means authoritarian rule because "the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare." Wrote Huxley: "It is a pretty safe bet that, twenty years from now, all the world's overpopulated and underdeveloped countries will be under some form of totalitarian rule." While man is cluttering the earth with his birth rate, he is also following a "Will to Order," the fundamental wish for harmony that softens him for the propagandists of authority...
Guided Thinking. Huxley cites such opinion-forming techniques as brainwashing, subconscious communication, drugs, sleep teaching. But when he discusses propaganda, Huxley begins to advocate it. The champion of laissez-faire in the marketplace of ideas becomes the proponent of guided thinking for the masses-along the proper lines, of course. Individuals, he says, "should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. That which is merely irrational but compatible with...
...Huxley ends with the familiar recommendations to cut the birth rate, boost the food supply and decentralize urban life. But his recommendations seem perfunctory. Watching his stereotype of the satisfied American teen-ager pleasurably floating in a television world, Huxley sees little real hope for the future. And when the brave new world comes, he concludes, it will likely stay forever: "Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown...