Aldous Huxleys book Brave New World from 1931. predicted our present and future

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Post by proofmaster » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 9:09 PM UTC

Aldous Huxleys book Brave New World from 1931. predicted our present and future
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Post by AaronRamsey » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

This article is veery well written. I read the book a long time ago and never thought Huxley would get almost everything right. "Technology controls the society", this one wasn't that hard to predict.

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Post by tomellis271 » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 11:52 PM UTC

I tried to read Brave New World. Really pushed myself. Is it me or is BNW just Christian horror?

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Post by eevilspock » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:09 AM UTC

Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/huxley-or...

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Post by sushid » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:52 AM UTC

Am I missing something? This is such a simple, short piece that I thought I missed a link to a second page.

Comparing Soma to SSRI or MDMA is nothing new and apart from that, there's no additional "analysis." At least refer to the their lack of a competitive lifestyle (e.g. a golf-esque game with no winners/losers), therapies like VPS for emotional attachment, frustration, etc. or electrotherapies administered to babies to ensure they upload the status quo (e.g. aversion to natural/free feelings for lower caste babies).

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Post by aphextron » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 2:10 AM UTC

sushid wrote: post #5

Am I missing something? This is such a simple, short piece that I thought I missed a link to a second page. Comparing Soma to SSRI or MDMA is nothing new and apart from that, there's no additional "analysis." At least refer to the their lack of a competitive lifestyle (e.g. a golf-esque game with no winners/losers), therapies like VPS for emotional attachment, frustration, etc. or electrotherapies administered to bab…

Agreed. It reads as an eighth grade book report on BNW.

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Post by tdb7893 » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 3:26 AM UTC

tomellis271 wrote: post #3

I tried to read Brave New World. Really pushed myself. Is it me or is BNW just Christian horror?

No book is for everyone I guess but I think calling it "just" Christian horror is oversimplifying. Especially because I don't think Huxley was very religious at all.