Continued from Part 3 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Propaganda, Mind Control & Entertainment Huxley admits that political and commercial entities had developed new techniques for manipulating the thoughts of the public “in the interest of some minority“(4). He … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 2 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Do People Really Want Freedom? Huxley asserts, referring also to a poll, that people will be happy enough to “live by bread alone–or at least by bread and circuses alone” … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 1 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Just as Huxley, writing in the 1950s, predicted a “new medieval system”, also Giuliano Amato, an architect of the European Union praised the Middle Ages in a 2000 interview: “. … Continue reading →
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 →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. 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. … 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 →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. 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 … 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 →