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which, oddly enough, looks amazingly like our caste society, turned to 11?
What do you mean? India? Most people here are US based.
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In Brave New World , they don't have to fuck, yet find plenty of opportunity to do so anyway. (and we are told this is somehow a dystopia?) Lagniappe: "cloning can be worthwhile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkjoQ6S7oQ
> and we're told it's somehow a dystopia They also have an eugenics based caste society.
despite everyone being content with their caste and having lots of consequence free sex and activities fulfilling to their mental faculties
yeah I also found this world to be attractive
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Yeah, Brave New World is a really interesting work of dystopian fiction IMO, because many people disagree that it's "dystopian", unlike 1984 which it's often compared with. No one thinks living in the world of 1984 sounds appealing, but BNW sounds like a pretty nice place actually, but the anti-BNW crowd tries to tell us it's horrible because it's "unnatural" or "against family values" or something like that. Meanwhi…
Well the "we have the ability to alter humans so we're all strong, healthy, and intelligent but we not only choose not to do that but choose to stunt development of some humans to produce a docile compliant workforce for menial labor" is pretty darn dystopian no matter how you swing it. And if you say "oh that wouldn't be so bad" you can even put your money where you mouth is -- would you be fine with being deprived…
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> and we're told it's somehow a dystopia They also have an eugenics based caste society.
“oh no, people couldn't chose what caste they were born into, this book is an imagined dystopian fiction” despite everyone being content with their caste and having lots of consequence free sex and activities fulfilling to their mental faculties yeah I also found this world to be attractive