Or, in other words, if you are conditioned to be an Epsilon, you should be happy with doing your menial tasks because you’re helping society, just as much as the Alpha caste which is superior, both in terms of intelligence and strength. In other words, that the government is good and that things such as upward mobility are about as mythical as Santa Claus. Namely, through hypnopaedia (discovered accidentally when a Polish boy named Reuben Rabinovitch learned an entire radio broadcast in English when a radio receiver was left on during his sleep), people are conditioned from birth to believe what the government wants them to believe. The conditioning – the hypnopaedia, or sleep-learning – is the shadier element. Since the novel is one of the most famous in the dystopian genre, you can already guess that they are not hatching chickens there.Īnd straight from the start, the Director of the factory explains what it is exactly that they are doing.Īnd we learn that the hatching of the human embryos is the more innocuous aspect of it.
The narrative of the “Brave New World” opens at a World State factory called the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in AF 632 (AD 2540). He died in 1963, as one of the preeminent thinkers of our time. In addition to novels, he also wrote nonfiction works such as the controversial “The Doors of Perception” (where he described his experiences with psychedelic drugs), travelogues, film stories, satires and Hollywood screenplays. Aldous Huxley BiographyĪldous Huxley was an English novelist, essayist, and philosopher, one of the most important writers of the 20 th century.Īfter graduating with first-class honors from Oxford’s Baliol College, Huxley went on a career which brought him both fame in the alt-culture circles and no less than seven Nobel Prize in Literature nominations. “Brave New World” is widely considered one of the best dystopian novels ever written, which, in other words, means that if you’re into SF and futurism, this is one of the first books you should read.īut, in a much more important way, “ Brave New World” is a book about everybody wanting to find out what may happen in the very near future if we’re not careful in our present. Who Should Read “Brave New World”? And Why? Want to visit London about half a millennium from today?īefore you say anything, we really think that you should read Aldous Huxley’s “ Brave New World.”
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