Category: BBC

Inside the Psychedelic Elite and the “next level of the human species”

2024 … Timothy Leary remembers Aldous Huxley saying, “We must spread the word… The obstacle to this evolution, Timothy, is the Bible.” Many proponents suggest that drugs can help us “evolve to a more perfected state” – what Stamets called the “next level of the human species”. Highly contingent experiences are presented as “objective” data, and… Read More Inside the Psychedelic Elite and the “next level of the human species”

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John Reith to Malcolm Muggeridge on the BBC’s Effects on the Language

John Reith, the first ever Director General of the BBC, talks to Malcolm Muggeridge about his time at the corporation. He explains the thinking behind his decision to instruct BBC broadcasters to speak in the rather artificial manner – which became known as the ‘BBC accent’ – as opposed to their own local dialects. Lord… Read More John Reith to Malcolm Muggeridge on the BBC’s Effects on the Language

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