Resources for the show:
H.G. Wells: 1) https://jacobin.com/2023/07/h-g-wells-socialism-progress-science-fiction
AND https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hg-wells
1a) https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6155&context=atg
AND https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/h-g-wells/ (Scifi, Fabian Society, Margaret Singer)
Wells as a thief? https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/03/31/famous-plagiarists-could-it-happen-today/
2) https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/technocracy-hypothesis
3) How does fiction shape politics and what can we learn from analyzing its impact on public attitudes? — Alliance for Peacebuilding https://share.google/i3h5ku45BtKwc6SLy
4) Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction – PMC https://share.google/oRWFgLTTe6sJgBFAG
4a) Speaking of things ‘sci-fi’, how about $300k ‘dogs’ data center developers are trotting out:
https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/robot-dog-patrols-data-centers-ai-infrastructure-buildout/
5) Strange Horizons – Political Agency and Inevitability in Speculative Fiction By Ruthanna Emrys, By Lila Garrott, By Alexis Shotwell https://share.google/nZ0iZu7JL3ClkZgUX
6) Common Core aligned lesson: The War of the Worlds Worksheets, Project, Test | Ereading Worksheets https://share.google/txWZZmaUQEHig4as8
Aldous Huxley:
7) From the National Endowment for Humanities (Common Core aligned entity): https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/novemberdecember/feature/the-talented-mr-huxley
7a) “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (ISBN 978-0-06-053526-1) cites his regard for B.F. Skinner, pages 322 & 323)
8) https://www.audible.com/blog/summary-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley
9) Totalitarianism in print:
https://minnesotaenglishjournalonline.org/2020/05/05/aldous-huxleys-brave-new-world-a-cautionary-tale-of-totalitarian-ideology-by-shahin-hossain/
AND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDg7L-dFdw
(Note about 12 minutes)
10) Promoting eugenics (nothing new by the government) https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/article/29/3/105/89976/Designing-a-Brave-New-World-Eugenics-Politics-and
AND
https://voegelinview.com/aldous-huxley-political-thought-man-letters/
11) Aldous Huxley and the United Nations: https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/journals/22202293/2018/4/5
AND
https://adametinson.com/Visions%20of%20Human%20Rights%20-%20Writing%20Sample%20-%20Adam%20Etinson.pdf
11a) https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/defeating-enemies-freedom
11b) The pages from “The Human Situation” (2nd attachment in the email)
12) Common Core spin on Huxley: https://www.socialstudies.com/pdf/CFL332CC.pdfhttps://files.harpercollins.com/HarperAcademic/BraveNewWorld_TeachingGuide_final.pdf
13) BOTH Wells/Huxley: https://scispace.com/pdf/signs-of-the-t-aldous-huxley-high-art-and-american-yzgqo10wx9.pdf
AND
https://www.brlsi.org/proceedings/aldous-huxley-writer-and-prophet/
(Note: pseudo science and psychology usage)
More ties:
https://www.pbs.org/video/what-you-dont-know-about-the-father-of-sci-f-pmoypj/
(Note: this is about 18 minutes)
Workers Education Association is based in the UK: https://www.wea.org.uk/about-us
Related resources:
Technocracy (what I call ‘technocrappiness’):
**Many are beginning to cite resources from the UN about data centers, but are they really fighting them or creating a false illusion of safety so that those opposed and fighting them will be ultimately exposed (hey, it’s a great ‘tin foil hat’ plot).
Check this one out about the technocracy push for more data: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/abs/localizing-the-un-2030-agenda-io-technocracys-engagement-with-territorybased-approaches-to-data/3057D98443D34337CEE12B25D5100535
Our friend, Patrick Wood, an expert on technocracy, was interviewed on how technocrappiness ties to data centers:: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-centers-draining-the-grid-flock-surveillance-you/id1796245001?i=1000771948034&l=vi
From 2023, the International Political Science Association: https://www.ipsa.org/na/event/rise-digital-technocracy
How did the IPSA play into education? https://www.ipsa.org/about-ipsa/history
“A Patriot’s Handbook” by Caroline Kennedy (ISBN: 0-7868-6918-6)
Oppenheimer AND Einstein’s writings, pages 446-448
(Note: both are considered ‘patriots’)
