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I’ll give them this. Brave New World may be a bit of a cliche but the fact that we have a decadent elite claiming divine right to their decadence on account of being “alpha”…yeah Huxley called it.
Brave New World is one of the actual decent dystopian fictions
Because Huxley understood that hopping people up on treats is a way more straightforward and stable way to control a populous than cartoonish supervillainry.
Yeah it resonated with me far more than whatever else I read when I was younger, and the whole soma thing has only felt more and more relevant as time has gone on. As a sort of aside this all reminded me of The Giver, a book my mom tried to team up with another evangelical mom to petition our school to get us not to read. Ironically the book really comes off as being super liberal, as well as not particularly good.
I've heard that book cited as being a cautionary tale about the evils of communism
Yeah I mean its basically about some super hightech post scarcity future where humans have decided to genetically engineer (I think) all of their racial differences and to remove all sexual desire and prejudice, or something like that. And basically one kid every so often gets to like... psychically inherit all these memories of how the world used to be. Basically you're meant to feel like its awful to ruin the human condition this way, but long after I read it I clocked it as seeming very anti-communist, like this is what the foolish commies will do if they eradicate scarcity and whatnot. Its not very good, from a creative perspective I think it would've been better as a short story that was more sci-fi in nature.
Yeah it’s been forever since I read The Giver, but my memory of it is “Baby’s first dystopian novel.” Like it was even more oversimplified in its depiction of authoritarianism than a typical YA novel.
Its definitely peddled to pretty young kids, and its written in a way as to be really ambiguous about the kind of ideology/society its criticizing. Theres definitely elements of fascism (racial purity), but the society portrayed is also essentially classless with some sort of big brother element that assigns everyone work and eradicates any form of dissent. Its just not a good book, really, but its also meant to be a somewhat edgy novel for very young people so I guess thats kinda normal.
Honestly I look back on a lot of the assigned reading from my youth and kinda resent being forced to read a lot of tripe. To be fair I was lucky to have a really advanced reading ability (I watched my brother play RPGs before I could read at all, and picked up a lot before I learned in school), so maybe I felt kinda put upon just not reading at whatever level I was at. I really dont mean this as a form of bragging, my experience with education just made me feel like sometimes the system assumes the least of kids when they're really capable and ready for a lot more.
Yeah, definitely. I love Huxley, but I just know everyone references Brave New World and I wish he got more credit for more than just that book.
I’m reading Island right now and so far liking it.
Brave New World is a dystopia with treatlerite characteristics.