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Topic: Aldous Huxley

Wedding reception for Ellen and Matthew Huxley, third and fourth from left, at the New School in New York, April 30, 1950. Also shown, from left: Ellen's parents; Maria Huxley and the author Aldous Huxley (far right). (Bettmann via Getty Images)

The acid trip too weird for the Huxleys

James Penner, Ed Prideaux
Aldous Huxley (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Huxley foresaw our Big Data nightmare

Ramesh Srinivasan
(AP/LM Otero)

Drug aficionados who opened new doors

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
(Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project - www.humanconnectomeproject.org, www.loni.usc.edu via AP)

Philosophers and psychedelics

Phillip Smith - Alternet
Aldous Huxley; George Orwell; Donald Trump (AP/John Locher)

Orwell + Huxley = Trump

Conor Lynch
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Walmart's Orwellian hellscape

Aaron R. Hanlon
Jeff Bridges and Brenton Thwaites in "The Giver" (The Weinstein Company)

Dystopia, served lukewarm

Andrew O'Hehir

92nd Street Y
(Warner Brothers)

Welcome to dystopia

Andrew O'Hehir
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