But beyond that lets look at true ignorance: some people believed the claim that the US and Russia were cooperating in Syria earlier this year. So your comparison of Kennedy and Reagan is already doomed by ignorance. But back to the article, it may be hard for you to understand, but in the United States education is not a federal program. No - smearing something with excrement is not 'an expression of the organic fecundity of the universe'. Now one more step: people have noticed that things designated 'highbrow' are as likely to be insipid as things designated 'lowbrow' are likely to be tasteless. Highbrow, lowbrow, Nobrow culture - big discussion topic from 15 years ago. In a place where government control had forced all cultural creativity underground, the demotic spirit and imagination that America seemed to embody seemed like a dream.Įxhibit A of the elitist who can't understand the masses: Nina Khruscheva. That was once an attractive proposition for countries like the Soviet Union, which was closer to the world of George Orwell’s own dystopian novel 1984.

All anyone needs to get ahead are guts and perseverance. With Donald Trump’s recent election as president, the United States seems to be fulfilling Huxley’s prediction more than 500 years ahead of schedule.Īmerica’s public culture has long shied away from highbrow thinking, often touting a kind of demotic laissez-faire egalitarianism as a precondition for unrestricted creativity and the unbridled capitalism that it supports. In Brave New World, he described a human race that, by 2540, has been destroyed by ignorance, a lust for constant entertainment, the dominance of technology, and an overabundance of material goods.

NEW YORK – “What we love will ruin us,” predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932.

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