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Huxley shows China's genetic experiment being successful, contra linked article.
by yters 17y ago
Huxley shows China's genetic experiment being successful, contra linked article.
- dimitar 17y agoI suppose you have read the book. The genetic experiment in BNW is successful insofar as maintaining social harmony and general efficiency but at the cost of individualism and freedom generally. Now, BNW is sci-fi. In the real world and the 21 century we don't have soma or such a promiscuous culture or the abolition of the family to pacify the individual. If we emulate the policies from the 26 century setting of the book we will not end up with a single anomaly - Bernard, but with many or even everyone having the same feeling of inferiority and the thirst for freedom and expression outside the influence of the state.
- wynand 17y agoBrave New World doesn't suggest that this kind of engineering was successful in terms of making people better, only that it led to a controllable world in which happiness took precedence over truth. A country that achieves what is described in the book will almost certainly fail to compete with countries that reward creative endeavours and free thought.