The New New World, I Think He's a Bit of a Skeptic.

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There's a theme with huxleys in getting of the world is kind of heading in the wrong direction. He spoke a lot in the fifties and sixties o bout the what he called the over organized society. And i think most of his writing was trying to to warn, if you like, about and maybe he saw the potential of psychodemic drugs as a way of not just by passing the brain, but maybe by passing all these bad things happening in society.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

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