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this has to be the most overtly Huxleyan branding I've seen on a consumer product Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for the product they're selling, which is
by allochthon 13y ago
this has to be the most overtly Huxleyan branding I've seen on a consumer product
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for the product they're selling, which is both cool and odd in a 1984 kind of way.
- mmanfrin 13y ago1984 was Orwell. Huxley was Brave New World.
- sneak 13y agoAlso, it seemed to me that the dichotomy set up in BNW is that "natural is good and right, artificial or new is bad" - one that has soured me on Huxley basically since when I first read it.
- romaniv 13y agoThe author commented on that in his foreword of later editions of the book. He said something along the lines that if he was writing the novel later in his life, the dichotomy wouldn't be as pointed.