90: Brave New World

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This is all about our current world. Just kidding, it's about a dystopian world invented by Aldous Huxley.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know. I am here with two of my compatriots,
0:14.4	Graham Donaldson. Hi, hi. Sorry, I'm here. Yes. I hope he's here. And Thomas Magby. Oh,
0:20.5	hey. Oh, hey. Sorry. Hey, guys. And our podcast is all
0:23.9	about bringing the classical world to you, our listener in a way that is digestible and not too
0:30.6	foreign, not too heady, not too academic-y, which is a word I just made up. And also, it's summer.
0:36.5	Right?
0:41.0	Wow. Wow. Summer is going to be apparently a raucous time it's kind of I don't know uh summer's a very exciting time it's also a bummer
0:44.6	because there are no students at the school like I don't know things get very quiet so that's
0:48.9	we also live on the surface of the sun during the summer yeah it's pretty warm down here I for
0:53.6	one love summer you two little rain clouds here. I, for one, love summer.
0:54.5	Okay.
0:54.7	God.
0:55.7	You two little rain clouds.
0:56.7	I know.
0:57.0	I do, I do, I do, I do love summer.
0:59.0	So, um, today, friends, we are going to be studying and talking about a book, uh, by
1:05.3	Aldous Huxley called.
1:06.8	A book, surprise, surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise, called Brave New World. And Brave New World is, yes, it is written in the 30s.
1:14.9	So those of you who are, have questions as to whether or not it is considered a classic,
1:21.0	you can send your angry emails to Thomas Magpie.
1:23.5	Wait, no, I don't like this.
1:24.4	No, wait, no, hold on.
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