The industrial revolution that began in the second half of the 19th century and sped up through the 20th allowed for the production of massive quantities of new goods. In other words, the World State is designed to make people happy.īrave New World criticizes the industrial economic systems of the era in which it was written by imagining those systems pushed to their logical extremes. In order to maintain its stability, the World State in Brave New World ensures that all its citizens get exactly what they want all the time. This satisfaction of desire, the person would believe, would make them happy. If you gave someone the choice between getting what they wanted and not getting what they wanted, they'd choose getting what they wanted every time. Technology is what you can do with that knowledge. Technology refers to the tools and applications developed from science. Science is the pursuit of truth and fact in the various sciences, from biology to physics. Science and technology are two different things. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.
Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. “A genius who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” ( The New Yorker ), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.
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