Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Brave New World Revisited was published in 1958 and is a non-fiction commentary by Huxley on his 1930’s novel Brave New World in which he predicts a totalitarian world government that dominates human beings … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 10 Continuing with the themes of Huxley’s Brave New World: Immaturity Adults in the Brave New World live immaturely, with a lack of seriousness and an appetite for endless fun. There is no need for initiative. Work … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 9 Media Propaganda Tools of propaganda in the “brave new world” include television, newspapers, “feelies”, and music (p. 59). There are bureaus of propaganda and a College of Emotional Engineering (p. 58). A New Religion and Unity … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 8 Promiscuity In Huxley’s Brave New World, promiscuity is a duty and monogamy is not tolerated. Everyone is trained from birth with hypnopaedic proverbs such as “everyone belongs to everyone else” (p. 38). A similar idea is … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 7 (Revised: January 3, 2014) Sterilization In Huxley’s novel, the majority of female embryos are sterilized (p. 10). The remaining women, such as one of the main characters, are trained to follow a habitual routine of taking … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 6 Getting into the actual novel, I want to highlight some of the themes in Brave New World while explaining parts of the plot in passing. First of all, the political setting is that of a World … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 5 Continuing with Aldous Huxley’s 1946 Foreword to his novel Brave New World, Huxley predicts: vast government-sponsored inquires into what the politicians and the participating scientists will call ‘the problem of happiness’—in other words, the problem of … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 4 (Rev. Dec. 30, 2013) Brave New World is a story about systematically modifying or damaging human beings—physically, mentally and morally– in order to make them compliant and passive slaves. In the Foreword, Huxley refers to a … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 3 For more information on the real-life sexualization agenda, see the research compiled by Dr. Judith Reisman at drjudithreisman.org. On her website, Dr. Reisman exposes the origins of the sexual revolution through the Foundation-funded research of Alfred … Continue reading →
By Alan Mercer Continued from Part 2 From the statements attributed to Huxley in the introduction, it’s clear to me that Huxley’s fear at the time was of the people living naturally and thinking for themselves in an unplanned world. … Continue reading →