Oct. 23, 2022 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Nothing New Under the Sun"
--{ "Nothing New Under the Sun"}-- Encouragement of Each Individual to Be Concerned Only with Immediate Environment; Cut-off from Bigger Picture - Withholding of Data - Promotion of Trivia - Nothing is Given to Public that Might Upset the System - Topics of Debate, Entertainment, Information - Monitoring of Public and All Buying and Selling - Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" - Nuclear Energy - Atomist organizations of Ancient Greece - ATOM=ADAM (Microcosm) - Psychological Warfare - Giving Up Before Anything Starts - Elitist Utopia Run by Intellectuals - Rosicrucians - Pyramid Schemes - Hereditary nobility - Lords - Wigs (Curls-Degrees) - Feb. 1929 Magazine Article (listen to blurb for article source) - Babies Will Be Produced by Chemists in Laboratories (Year 2029) - Changing Institution of Marriage - Life-expectancy - Synthetic Food - Climate Alteration - Scientific Discoveries Altering Human Life - Physics - World Supply of Cheap Energy - Atomic Energy - Geographic Alteration - Harnessing Wind Power - Tidal Energy - Reducing Speed of Earth's Rotation - 48 hour day - Wireless Telephones - Stereoscopic Television, (in color) - Computer voting. New Chemical Substances for "Human Enjoyment" - Realization of "Secrets of Living Chemistry" of Human Body - Life-extension - Solving "Mysteries" of Human Heredity - Eugenics - Intelligent Combinations of "Suitable Genes" - Ectogenic Birth - Ectogenesis - Reactions of Public Figured Out and Overcome in Advance - Breeding a Nation of "Industrial Dullards" (Morons) - Planned Society - Ectogenic Slave of Future (happy doing his task) - Worker Bee - Robot - GOLEM - Laboratory-grown Meats - "Chemical Nourishment" - Agriculture as a "rich man's hobby." (Song: "Keep Your Eyes on Palestine" by Larry Norman).