TC's review
Island
by Aldous Huxley
TC's review
Island by Aldous Huxley
TC's review
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As much as I'd like to shake it off, I can't quite get past the feeling that Huxley's critique of Western developmentalism, which I pretty much agree with, might not.. well, be quite served as well as it ought to have been by his own vision of the Good Society. The feeling that yes, given such and such fortuitous set of pre-existing conditions, combined with such and such rational application of supra-utilitarian psychology, transcendental humanism, "neurotheology," eco-anarchist mutualism, and good old Mahayana Buddhism, such an envious end-result would not seem out of question...
But which still begs the question of its sustained resistance in the face of the relentless machinery of obsolescence and cross-cultural hegemony employed by those in the iniquitous Westernist camp to mete out their own grubbing demands and exemplified with such lovingly satirical portrayal in the Dipa-Rani-Murugan Crusade-of-the-Spirit cabal. A suspicion which would make one say, basically, Its...more
But which still begs the question of its sustained resistance in the face of the relentless machinery of obsolescence and cross-cultural hegemony employed by those in the iniquitous Westernist camp to mete out their own grubbing demands and exemplified with such lovingly satirical portrayal in the Dipa-Rani-Murugan Crusade-of-the-Spirit cabal. A suspicion which would make one say, basically, Its...more
