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

Aldous Huxleys book Brave New World from 1931. predicted our present and future(freshasfuck.net)

15 points by proofmaster 9 years ago | 6 comments

eevilspock 9 years ago |

Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell:

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

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.

sushid 9 years ago |

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).

aphextron 9 years ago | |

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

tomellis271 9 years ago |

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

tdb7893 9 years ago | |

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.