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Huxley takes industrialization to task, using the slippery slope argument to imagine a future with no deprivation or rebellion, but also no art, no literature, no relationships or families. Is losing meaningfulness the cost of happiness?
What if we took automation to its extreme, and mass-produced humans, customizing them in-vitro for their intended purposes? And with sex, drugs, and mindless entertainment to keep everyone happily distracted, no one will ever complain.
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What if we took automation to its extreme, and mass-produced humans, customizing them in-vitro for their intended purposes? And with sex, drugs, and mindless entertainment to keep everyone happily distracted, no one will ever complain.
It's interesting to contras ...more
I don't really know why I couldn't put this book down and why I thought it was so good. I didn't really like any of the characters, nor did I like the way they lived. I think I kept waiting for someone in the book (aside from John Savage) to realize that they didn't need to live that way--that you could be an individual instead of being like everyone else. But I was disappointed in that. I was disappointed in the character Linda as well. I hoped that she would realize how much better off she was
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Lessons we still haven't learned
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This is a novel that when reading it in 2012 strikes me as rather ridiculous. Debating w myself whether my initial stars ought to be revised...
Two months later: yup, downgraded from three to two stars, the book is just plain silly, and certainly so in comparison to 1984 which I recently also reread, and Swedish 1930s writer Karin Boye's dystopian Kallocain. ...more
Two months later: yup, downgraded from three to two stars, the book is just plain silly, and certainly so in comparison to 1984 which I recently also reread, and Swedish 1930s writer Karin Boye's dystopian Kallocain. ...more
I read this as a teenager and forgot most of it; it was definitely worth a re-read. I wouldn't call it wonderful literature, but understand why it's a classic.
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Jul 28, 2009
Meg
marked it as to-read
Feb 07, 2021
Michelle
marked it as to-read
