The life of Aldous Huxley is a parable of the modern age. Descended from Darwin’s bulldog Thomas Henry Huxley and Matthew Arnold, Huxley was part of an elite intellectual class of distinctly Victorian orientation. He was greatly offended by the “mass culture” that he saw developing around him, and wrote of it with prescience: advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving — to extend and intensify, that is to say, the workings of that force, which (as... Read more