Aldous Huxley

Huxley is already extremely interesting to me because he has the same birthday as my brother but was born exactly 100 years to the day before my brother. Huxley was born to be intelligent and very successful, as his mother was a scientist and his father was a schoolteacher. Both of Huxley's brothers were biologists. The entire family was extremely successful. In Huxley's writing he observed traditions, social norms and ideals.

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”

This is a very interesting point that Huxley made. He is very right in my opinion because in order to win a war, one must be savage and a tyrant, wanting to literally destroy the enemy. 

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

This is another interesting view of Huxley. He wrote about the traditions of the world, but he also wrote about what the future would hold and different scenarios as to which the world could become. 

Check out this site for more information: http://www.egs.edu/library/aldous-huxley/biography/