Aldous Huxley

As if the name wasn't already great enough, the man himself only raises my already high opinion of him. He is, what has been referred to as a forward thinker, a man ahead of his time. Admittedly, it surprises me to hear him talk about issues that he felt were of importance in his day, because they are greatly saturated into our own time. For example, his observation of man becoming slave to technology, or his own creations. I see this as a large part of our current circumstance. Man no longer seems to retain his freedoms, but allows them to be diminished by his own devices, self-imposed and societal limitations, along with the continued misdirection of life through pursuant understanding by way of categorical thinking. These issues all holds a great deal of interest for me, and it is shocking to see how ill acquainted with them so many people are. The more that I learn the more I grow and so too does my amazement of how easy it is to not pursue critical thought and autonomy.
Around the same period of this movie, there was a book written by Herbert Marcuse entitled One-Dimensional Man (I highly recommend reading it). In it Marcuse alludes to this same point, concentrating on the political structure that facilitates, rationalizes and enables man in the forfeiting of himself and into accepting the being of nullification into a drone like state by the machines themselves. Even science is supportive of this as it has been shown that nature nurtures soothing and healing by infusing us with energy, with life, by way of negative ions. While quite the opposite is true of machines who suck, and drain our energy, essentially our life force from us by transferring positive ions. Take time to notice the sensory and energy differences in your person and compare your experience with sitting in front of a computer/television and that of you in nature next to a stream of running water. I assure you the difference is astounding.
Question??? So, why then do we continue to isolate ourselves from one another reaching out with and existing within a technological grip? What is so attractive to us about detriments of the physical, mental, and social realms? We need to actively impact society so that we instill the importance of moderation, human and natures touch, and favor freedom and growth to that of enslavement. We are so afraid of that looming day when machines will rule the world with an iron fist that we miss what is going on this very day, who is to say that they already aren't? The most effective strategy of control is one where the oppressed is unaware to their domination.