Welcome to the Brave New World.
Rules are pretty simple, don't spoil any of the upcoming chapters and keep discussion to chapters 14-18.
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I'll have more comments when I totally finish, I have about 30 minutes left to read probably. There's not been much discussion on this one. My main comment to this point is I find the "Brave New World" made up in the book gross and repulsive. Which I think was the point. Although it's odd because if I recall Huxley was a commie. So I guess this is his book on what they would call late-stage capitalism or whatever.
Huxley was a member of the Fabian society.
Ah ok, I'd probably call them the "friendly commies" or something like that. Admittedly I tend to lump most socialist stuff together in my own mind though.
I find it funny though, because unless there's some major revelation in the last 45 pages of my book to this point it's seemed like a warning against a weird collectivist society that I can't put a finger on how to categorize. Maybe it's just the difference in the world then versus today, because I can't get past the feeling that this book is the world that today's so-called socialists think they want and is definitely the world the WEF-type elites want. So being that Huxley was a socialist and it doesn't seem like he's glorifying the fictional world, I can't see what he's trying to warn against. Freedom and socialism are total opposites in my head. I guess I need to try to get in the head of the world 90 years ago.
Isn't that the point though, That people are basically living in a gilded cage? That our humanity can be taken simply by giving people everything they want. It's just consume product, fuck indiscriminately, repeat. The machines were wrong to send back a Terminator, they should have sent back someone to spoil and fatten up John Connor.
/u/DomitiusOfMassilia can I get a sticky please, thanks.
Got it