Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1932
An engineered future where comfort is compulsory and happiness is manufactured—and one outsider asks what was sacrificed to get it.
Aldous Huxley
Huxley taught French at Eton, where one of his pupils was George Orwell; Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is often read as a reply to this book.
Feels like society, unease and power.
What is lost when nothing is allowed to stand between wanting and having.
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well-being. (The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute. The decanted infant howls; at once a nurse appears with a bottle of external secretion. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. Shorten that interval, break down all those old unnecessary barriers. Books by Aldous Huxley
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