Brave New World is incomplete without Huxley's Island
Brave New World
Andrew Cruz
Justin Baker
BNW seems a lot more plausible though.
Brandon Bennett
You tell me, OP.
Asher Williams
Julian Watson
Pick one and only one.
Jayden Foster
Yeah, people forget Huxley hated unmitigated capitalism (hence the societies creator and original controller being Ford and "by Ford" being a saying) and that his perfect society was a Georgist/Kropotkin based communal society in which everyone had sex and did shrooms all day. He's by no means a communist in the traditional sense, and he openly was against the USSR and Marxism, but he definitely was more of a utopian anarkiddie than a defender of capitalism.
If anything Brave New World is a good example of a SocDem or Technocrat society in which the people are made so drugged and complacent by their own volition that no one questions or has a desire to change their condition. The whole thing is a Camatte-esc nightmare in which humanity is an aspect of capital and is unable to escape. To steal from the wiki for that who don't know Camatte:
If that isn't BNW with it's whole "village natives good, Ford society bad" message, I don't know what is.
Justin Russell
BNW isn’t really designed to oppose any particular system, rather it’s a critique of the notion of social progress as the endless rationalization and increased “efficiency” of society. If anything it’s a critique of some aspects of the enlightenment.
Jackson Peterson
Jackson Cooper
You wouldn't notice the difference though, because you'd be one too.
your entire personality and conception of life is engineered from birth.
Juan Diaz
Did you miss the point about Ford?