At age six, Ruby Bridges (see photo below) became the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960. The meme here is, of course, a reference to whites’ objections to our schools’ teaching …
Tag: Aldous Huxley
Huxley’s Birthday Is a Good Time to Contemplate Where We Are as a Civilization
From the Writer’s Almanac: In 1931, (Aldous Huxley) began work on a novel that he intended to be a light look at what the future might hold – a satiric response to the utopian novels of H.G. Wells. He wrote …
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Here’s a Prediction of the Future: It Will Remain Unpredictable
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: If you want to accept a doctrine based on faith, that’s okay by me. However, it precludes any objective or realistic analysis. No one can accurately predict the future. First, no one’s suggesting that taking things …
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Huxley’s Low Opinion of Americans’ Approach To Life
Today is the birthday of English author Aldous Huxley, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley wed in 1919 and the couple traveled a lot during the early years of their marriage. According to The Writer’s Almanac: …
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Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley – and a Note on Sustainability
Aldous Huxley would be 119 years old today. I read his Brave New World in a course I had in college called “Social Ideals and Ideal Societies,” which I took for a very noble reason: a pretty girl I liked …
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