MIRANDA
a hypertext of Huxley's Brave New World

Sociology

World State

• The United Nations
• World government conspiracies

Science of Political Control

• An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control

Population Issues / Population Clocks

• "Environment of Consumption"
• US Census clock
• World population
• Facing the Future
• How Poverty Breeds Overpopulation by Barry Commoner
• Thomas Malthus
  • Malthus' “Essay on the Principle of Population”
  • Malthus: brief bio & writings

Population Decline?

• Love Earth Network
• UN: Expert Group Meeting on Policy Responses to Population Ageing and Population Decline
• World Population Awareness: Negative Population Growth

Social Engineering

• Taylorism
• The Engineering of Social Control
• Collective Intelligence in Social Insects
• Censorship
• Surveillance
• "Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery?"

Pavlov & Conditioning

• Pavlov Nobel biography & speech
• Classical conditioning
• Skinner's operant conditioning

Psychology & Sociology

• Freud Archives
• Eric Fromm
• William James
• B. F. Skinner
• Stanley Milgram
• Philip Zimbardo
• Social Influence

Religion

• See our "Philosophy and Religion" section

Hypnopedia & Advertising

• Does sleep teaching really work?
• Media & Advertising
• Is Subliminal Influence Used in Advertising?
• How Ad Slogans Work
• TV addiction

Consumerism

• Overcoming consumerism
• Behind consumerism & consumption

Class Consciousness / Caste

• Caste System in India
• History and Class Consciousness by George Lukacs 1920
• Ideology and Class Consciousness by Paul Mattick 1983
• Caste by Michelle Smith
• Teaching Children About Aging

Marriage & Monogamy

• "From Wolves to Child's Play to Group Evolutionary Strategies"
• Marriage
• "Institute for 21st Century Relationships"

Sexuality

• Sexuality Information and Education Council
• Deflating the Myth of Monogomy
• The Science of Attraction
• The Kinsey Reports
• Erotophobia
• The Politics of Lust
• Human sexuality
• Sexual Man
• "The Danger of Childhood Sexuality"
• "Childhood: A Cultural Study of Sexuality and Violence"
• "Antisexualism in Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs"

Simple Life / Sustainable Living

• Thoreau
• Intentional communities
• Twin Oaks
• Los Horcones

Savagery & Civilization

• Franklin's "Remarks Concering the Savages of North America" 1784
• "Civilization and Savagery" by J. Harmon Grahn