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Mike Wallace Interview (1958) — video

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Jonathan
May 12, 202618 May 1958
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Aldous Huxley argues that freedom is threatened less by overt tyranny than by impersonal forces like overpopulation, overorganization, propaganda, and manipulative technology. He warns that television, advertising, drugs, and centralized systems could enable future dictatorships that win consent rather than rule by terror, and he urges education, vigilance, and decentralization as safeguards.

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