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> The people in BNW live in the manner that they desire, but not many would call it a utopia. That's probably because Huxley implies an overarching force or pr
by jancsika 8y ago
> The people in BNW live in the manner that they desire, but not many would call it a utopia.
That's probably because Huxley implies an overarching force or process that is rather directly controlling the population. Also-- like 1984-- this process is strongly implied to be inescapable.
Those aspects of those books scare the hell out of young people. But if you remove those aspects, I'm not sure many people would find anything wrong with getting high and dancing to algorithmically generated music when they feel the urge.