This week on From the Vault we present a true visionary thinker who wrote and spoke as much about possible futures as he did about present events and those of antiquity: Aldous Huxley. While best known as the author of the dystopian science fiction novel Brave New World (1934), Huxley also explored psychedelic concepts in Doors of Perception (1954) and Utopian concepts in Island (1962). Pacifica Radio was on hand to record Huxley in 1959 at the campus of the University of California – Santa Barbara, as he gave a speech known as The Final Revolution, on how humanity is threatening to destroy the delicate natural balance of its existence.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
First broadcast on 01/21/2011.
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