We often imagine tyranny as a heavy hand from the outside, but Aldous Huxley understood a more unsettling possibility. He saw that we can be persuaded to enjoy our own containment. In this episode, we follow Huxley’s journey from the clinical satire of Brave New World to the mystical search for a conscious culture in his final novel, Island.
We explore the "reducing valve" of the brain, the modern versions of soma that keep us distracted, and the fragile possibility of a truly humane future. It is an exploration of the bargain we make every day between the relief of comfort and the responsibility of attention.
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