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

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.