huxley knew lsd posed a threat to the political order. he sees this as a radical drug with a lot of dust radical influence. he said people who had power were likely to resist it. throughout huxley's career, he advocated that a medical model be used for research and promoting the use of lsd. if medical elites -- in other words, eminent doctors could be persuaded to give lsd only two elite patients. carey grant, the actor was one. there would be no crackdown by the government. if you had eminent people taking lsd in a medical setting under the advice, guidance and care of and eminent physician, the government would not outlaw lsd or arrest anyone. his idea was that if you could spread lsd to its elites, a to be recognized to the great changes that could bring about to the human psyche and you could change the world. huxley warned that if lsd became too available and was used by too many people, there would be a backlash and the politicians would ban it. that is exactly what happened. the second person who promoted this was allen ginsberg. h

huxley immigrated to the united states and became a script writer in hollywood. there was more money to be made writing scripts the novels. he love los angeles because of the bright sunshine. his particular kind of lightness allowed him to see a little light. he could read if he had a magnifying glass and sat out right next to the swimming pool in the bright sun. he loved l.a. for that reason. in the 1950's he experimented mescaline, which was derived from peyote and lsd. he wrote the first serious book about lsd. the book is " doors of perception." he advocated lsd. he thought it was so powerful that it would cause all of the internal mental structures of everybody in the world to be radically altered and peace would break out all over the world. believe that human society would be totally reorganized if the world took lsd. he continued to have the gate lsd into the 1950's and into the early 1960's until he died of cancer in 1963. jim morrison,d that he named his rock group "the doors" in honor of huxley's book. posed a threat to the political order. he sighed a

huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.uxley feared we would become a trivial culture. orwell feared we would become a captured culture. huxley said, actually -- i will skip down to here where he says, in 1984, people are controlled by inflicting pain. in "brave new world," they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. in short, orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. huxley feared that what we loved will ruin us. brian: why did you use it? brooke: because, i set up, at the beginning of the book, our biological wiring. i wanted to show how we had evolved a culture that was designed to validate us and not to challenge us. certainly not to contradict us. it gave us the illusion that our realities were watertight, when really they were riddled with the weak spots and places that would crunch in. that this kind of collision, which happens periodically through history, and i talk about that, this kind of collision of realities or being faced with the fact that your sand that built on , happens periodically and happens for th

introduction in postman's fabulous classic called "amusing ourselves to death," and there was the orwell, huxley contrast. host: i am going to ask you to read it. it's the easiest way for the audience to put it in perspective. brooke: sure, sure. think everybody knows that in "1984" big brother comes and takes away everybody's volition and everybody's freedom. something very different happens in "brave new world." a place is created where compliance and complacency is coped out of the population. here's all what i will say about that. postman said -- host: what were you getting at, why did you use it? brooke: because, i set up, at the beginning of the book, our biological wiring. i wanted to show how we had evolved a culture that was designed to validate us and not to challenge us. certainly not to contradict us. it gave us the illusion that our realities were watertight, when really they were riddled with the weak spots and places hat would crunch in. that this kind of collision, which happens periodically hrough history, and i talk about that, this kind of collision of realities, or to being f

all this huxley wrote a book about it. the philosophy, it says that all of the ancient religions have a unified spiritual core that was delivered to mankind in the earliest ages of the world. in the enlightenment we, in the , west, lost our connection to transcendence to god. and what traditionalists want to do is to get that back. bannon, who is a very conservative catholic believes this. and this is what shapes his worldview. there was a lot of talk in the campaign. trump and brandon moore gesture return to the more a's and ethics of the 1950's and 60's. theon wanted to go back to 1500s. he is deeply opposed to modernity. the thing to understand about traditionalists is that they think modernity has led to decline rather than progress. this has had a real influence on 20th-century politics. hitler's ideologists were influenced by the traditionalist theory. i don't think trump knows this or cares about this. certainly doesn't know anything about french metaphysics, but bannon is trying to set this right-wing nationalism a