aldous huxley

Aldous Huxley’s contribution to the COSMIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL TOOLKIT (by m1k3y)

“Not only is the material universe larger and stranger than we used to give it any credit for, but the mental universe is also larger and stranger than we give it credit for. We carry about inside skulls an extraordinary world, a visionary world, a mystical world…”

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A lot of the sci-fi stuff in Orwell and Huxley, and cyberpunk too, looks “eerily similar to what’s real” because it was built to look that way, on purpose. It was science fiction, but derived from events that were genuinely going on in real life. Only people didn’t talk about them much in polite society. The readers hadn’t caught on yet.

Bruce Sterling qna on /. – http://m.slashdot.org/story/195971

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