Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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Author: Aldous Huxley
Foreword: Christopher Hitchens
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2005-07-01
ISBN: 0060776099
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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Book Review: Mood controlling pills and uniformity
Summary: 5 Stars

As I watch the commercials for Zoloft and other psychiatric drugs that are frequently encouraged to the general public today thanks to advertising, I can't help but smell the essence of the stew descibed by Huxley in this wonderful book simmering in our own modern kitchen.
It is controversal to advertise tobacco but it is perfectly suitable to make the drugs once used to control the mentally unstable as freely marketed as pepsi.
There is much to be learned from this book, the lack of individuality and the pride of ignorance that it shown but the general populace when they finally succeed in causing the young "savage" to lose his cool.
You could easily rewrite this book as a modern day portrayal of Los Angeles without having to make many changes.

Summary of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

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.

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