Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
]]>"No doubt," he said, "you think you can make good the loss with phosphate rocks. But what'll you do when the deposits are exhausted?" He poked Everard in the shirt front. "What then? Only two hundred years & they'll be finished. You think we're being progressive because we're living on our capital Phosphates, coal, petroleum, nitre--squander them all. That's your policy. And meanwhile you go round trying to make our flesh creep with talk about revolutions."When his interlocutor, the fascist politician Everard Webley, demands to know whether Lord Edward wants a revolution, Tantamount first asks whether such an event would reduce the population & check production & then, when assured it would, he responds, "'Then certainly I want a revolution.' The Old Man thought in terms of geology & was not afraid of logical conclusions."
In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations.
Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.
]]>In diese Welt platzt Bernhard Marx, der aus einem Reservat, in dem es keine genmanipulierten Menschen und kein Soma gibt, kommt. Er lernt eine Frau aus der obersten Kaste kennen, verliebt sich in sie und beginnt, gegen das System zu revoltieren... Als Leitbild hat er aus dem Reservat eine Ausgabe von Shakespeares Werken mitgebracht und Mirandas Worte klingen ihm im Ohr: "Schöne, neue Welt, die solche Menschen trägt!".
Aldous Huxley hat einen satirischen Roman geschaffen, der trotz seines Alters von 60 Jahren einige erschreckende Parallelen zur Gegenwart aufweist. Dieses Buch macht die Gefahren von Genmanipulation sehr deutlich, allerdings waren zu dieser Zeit viele Dinge, die für uns selbstverständlich sind, nicht vorstellbar und so hinterläßt es ein manchmal seltsames Gefühl. Der Roman ist eine Literaturlegende, die man einfach gelesen haben muß. --Tina Dobosch
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