Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World, a profoundly significant work of world literature by Aldous Huxley, paints a sobering picture of an unequal, technologically advanced future in which people are genetically engineered, socially brainwashed, and drugged to maintain an authoritarian system of government at the expense of their freedom, humanity, and perhaps even their souls. Huxley, who was described as “a genius who spent his life denouncing the forward march of the Machine,” was a man of unmatched abilities who was also an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s most astute observers of human nature and civilization.
Millions of people have read his masterwork, Brave New World, which continues to be urgently relevant today as both a warning to be heeded as we move into the future and as an engaging piece of fiction. Brave New World, which was written in the 1930s as fascism was on the rise, also relates to the 21st-century world, which is dominated by mass entertainment, technology, medicine and medicines, the arts of persuasion, and the covert power of elites.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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It is incredible that in 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote this technological dystopia. The story’s sociological components centre on an obedient sheep community ruled by the state and kind tyrants through brainwashing and groupthink. The novel’s remarkable ability to foresee a society run by beneficent technocrats rather than politicians, a scenario that seems more and more possible in the age of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, is what makes it so compelling. And Huxley was born into a distinguished scientific family with strong social ties.
The novel’s central idea seems startlingly prescient. In the not-too-distant future, humans are genetically created by the state in vast state-run reproduction farms, and society has been organized into a caste system. Only a small number of women and men are able to contribute fertile eggs and sperm for this meticulous societal engineering, foreshadowing “The Handmaid’s Tale”. Strong, bright, and charismatic people belong to the higher castes. The lowest classes are physically frail, turgid, and subservient. Since their genetic engineering has essentially eliminated their tendency toward envy and aggression, they don’t feel any resentment toward people from the top castes. Most significantly, there is no longer an idea of a family, of a father or mother, as reproduction is now the job of the state…
