The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show

On Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel, recorded at Manhattan's Caveat on 4/6/19, with audience participation. If we harness the power of society to employ available technologies to really focus on making people happy, what would the result be? This is Huxley's thought experiment, but is it in all respects a dystopia, and is it a fair test of the ideal of social improvement or merely of a flawed view of human nature? <a href="https://youtu.be/EucgKxAASHA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You can watch this episode instead</a>. End song: "Brave New World" by Mark Lint. <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/05/12/pel-10th-anniversary-brave-new-world-song/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read about it</a>. Get the <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/pel-10th-anniversary-t-shirt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">commemorative T-shirt</a>, and save $10 with the coupon code revealed at the beginning of the <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/05/13/ep215-brave-new-world-citizen/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Citizen Edition</a> of this episode. <a href="http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Please support PEL!</a> <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/contact-pel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Contact us</a> to share your PEL stories.

The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com.

We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.