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Am I the only one who read Brave New World and thought "That doesn't seem all that bad?"

• umvi 5y ago
  Pros: you are high all the time Cons: you don't have parents or a family, you never experience real human relationships or love, in all likelihood your fetus will have been intentionally handicapped before birth, and if you did win the lottery and were born with your intellect in tact you'll get sent to an island to die if you start thinking too much.
• newsbinator 5y ago
  It doesn't seem all that bad for the Alphas and Betas
• msla 5y ago
  Here's an interesting review which makes something similar to that case: http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/14/14432.html http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/14/14432.html The main thrust: > More broadly, though, Huxley is arguing for people to continue leading the sorts of lives that make for high art rather than those that make people content. His chief complaint about the Brave New World is that people have taken the dizzying highs and terrifying lows that lend "nobility" and "heroism" to life and traded them in for the creamy middles of happiness. For that argument I have less sympathy. By which I mean fuck that noise. The notion that suffering is ennobling is a particularly destructive piece of social engineering, and the suggestion that other people should suffer because Aldous Huxley enjoys the "over-compensations for misery" that the artists among them produce is pretty vile.