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Huxley also anticipated our age of free love. In so many ways, we vote with our pocketbook. After 9/11, we received calls to travel, fly, and use hotels, as if we could merely out-spend the terrorists. When a problem arises, the answer is more consumption. The flip-side of the production coin is consumption, and we are nothing if not consumers. Whole newspapers are devoted to the rise and fall of production, and an entire class of businessmen devote their lives to production. These days we're quite confident that charts should go up, and we stake our happiness on them. If you listen to Marketplace on NPR, you know they play chipper music when the markets go up and brassy, muted trombones when the markets drop. Huxley's vision of a world enraptured with production was spot-on. Unfortunately, what gives the biologist a sardonic smile as he reads it, is the fact that the biology is perfectly right.'Īnd indeed, it serves us well on this, the 75th anniversary, to discuss just what else was right. For of course in the world at large, those persons, and there will be many, who do not approve of his 'utopia,' will say, we can't believe all this, the biology is all wrong, it couldn't happen.

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One Cambridge biochemist put it this way: 'Only biologists and philosophers will really appreciate the full force of Mr. The literary elite, embroiled in 1920s utopian liberalism, couldn't imagine a future for the world that was anything but rosy.īut the biologists suspected otherwise.

And I only differ from him in not believing that there is any such future to hate'. Chesterton was also quite harsh: 'However grimly he may enjoy the present, he already definitely hates the future. Wells wrote, 'has no right to portray the future as he did in that book.' George Orwell described BNW as a 'brilliant caricature of the present' that 'probably has no bearing on the future.' G.K.

'A writer of the standing of Aldous Huxley,' H.G. Most reviewers took issue with Huxley's grim portrayal of the future. When Huxley's novel first came out, critics were frosty. He finds himself unable to live in the world, and he eventually chooses to live in exile, preferring pain, complication, difficulty, God, and everything else to the unmitigated happiness that the Brave New World provides. This savage was born naturally, and he was exposed to Shakespeare, God, and all the things that the new utopia has tried to eliminate. In this environment, two young employees at a hatchery take a vacation to a wild, uncontrolled part of America, where they encounter a young 'savage'. If a person ever feels conflict or anguish, they merely take soma, a drug with no side effects that keeps people from feeling pain.

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'Alphas' are given the top intellectual jobs, while lowly 'Epsilons' toil away at manual labor. In this world of free, non-reproductive love, the only thing that makes anyone blush is natural childbirth, which has become a taboo.

Everyone is made sterile, and children are produced on an assembly line just like everything else. In fact, reproduction by natural means has been banned altogether. Monogamy is seen as an unnecessary check on happiness, so 'everyone belongs to everyone else'. Gratification is the end-all, be-all of Huxley's imaginary society, and anything that gets in the way of happiness is cast aside. God has been banned, art has been stymied, and all has been sacrificed in the name of production. With this important milestone approaching, it would serve us well to take a second look at this classic work.īrave New World (BNW) portrays a future world where happiness is king. A must read FotD.Īldous Huxley's Brave New World was written in 1922, which means that this year is its 75th anniversary. Dees for including that ending in his ending below. I particularly enjoyed reading this book in high school and found the ending particularly fascinating. 'Įnjoy the summary of this provocative work and reflections on Western culture.

This one is a classic of literature that turns 75 years old this year, Huxley's Brave New World. Today we have another Fact of the Day contribution to Power of Change by FotD editor Timothy Dees.

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