Wednesday, September 3, 2008

1b. Expert Lecture: Aldous Huxley

Yet another thing that stood out to be in Aldous Huxley's interview was his understanding of the economic and politics that even still told stand to be true, for him to almost foretell the concerns we have now in the 1950's or 1960's is quite remarkable. The inability to industrialize developing countries, the need for concern of the ecosystem, and the power of politics has in our world, were all mentioned then and still not ameliorated fifty years later.

These issues are issues that will be here for years to come and without the action of powerful countries nothing will be done. And once as progress has started to fix them how will we know that they can be fixed.

The inability that developing countries have to industrialize is based upon the greed of the powerful countries, which pillage and destroy whatever natural resources the subordinate country has only to increase the rich country's wealth. Our ecosystem is supporting so many people now that it can only continue for so much longer, the Earths resources are not a replenishable, once they are gone they are gone, what we have to do now is conserve whatever we can. But like it was said most of our energy will not go into fixing the fore mentioned issues but will go to establishing and keeping world power.

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