Ch 15

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Ch 15



> In any case, different people respond to music in different ways. My 
> point would be that music can work on people—particularly in Film and 
> esp. TV—in a way that bypasses the conscious mind. "Just throw in a  oboe 
> theme, you're supposed be getting people to cry here."
>

I find Robin's posts on music interesting in their entirity but I picked the 
above sentences as specifically relevant to Huxley.

Huxley wanted to demonstrate that what he had much earlier predicted in 
Brave New World had now come to pass.

One feature of the new order was the extensive use of appeals to the 
unconscious as a means of manipulating  the populace.

Subliminal messaging.

The Jingle.

P.