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> Really, Brave New World minus the implausible bits and with a larger dash of individual freedom thrown in is pretty much as far from dystopian as it can get.
by wtbob 12y ago
> Really, Brave New World minus the implausible bits and with a larger dash of individual freedom thrown in is pretty much as far from dystopian as it can get. Radical, certainly, and jarring—very different from our current social order—but fundamentally good.
And that's why Brave New World is far more frightening: an educated, intelligent person looks at it now and thinks, 'that's not so bad!'
- JacksonGariety 12y agoYeah wow I need to get off Hacker News. These are scary hive-mind hedonistic ideas.
- emgee3 12y agoWhat's even more frightening is we're getting both.
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoNo, we got Snow Crash instead.
- ionwake 12y agoSnow crash had an emphasis on corporation habitats, and scrutiny of employees. I believe that was it, care to elaborate?
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoI was thinking of the globalization, cyberpunk, collapse of social/governmental authority, widespread poverty, and cyberpunk.
- jjoonathan 12y agoThen it should be easy to argue the point instead of offering feigned surprise that someone might think that way.
- gweinberg 12y agoGood and bad are fundamentally subjective. If you look at BNW and think "that's not so bad", we;ll just have to agree to disagree.
- JacksonGariety 12y agoBut now the "intellectuals" (like OP) who have the power are drastically far removed from the common person, and thus their opinions of good and evil are harmful.