Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited

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Paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published July 7, 1942 by Harper Perennial.

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5 stars (1 review)

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, Brave New World is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.

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5 stars

I found this book to be a marvellous prediction of how our future will look like. The eugenics, indoctrination and the handing out of calming psycho-actives has merely begun in this age, so when we look a couple generations further into the abyss of the future, we might suspect mr. Huxley was right on the money. What I liked most in this read was the second part of the book, "Brave New World Revisited", where the author, after many years, reflects back on his predictions, at times explaining them while at other times updating his views.

Subjects

  • Classic fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Sociology
  • Literary
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Classics
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Reading Group Guide
  • Culture
  • Brainwashing
  • Propaganda