Are we going to destroy the things we love? Are we left to choose between chaos and madness?
"Brave New World" imagines the future society of the 26th century AD. There, human beings are divided into several "castes" and are produced in batches in industrialized nurseries. After unified education and training, they complete fixed jobs and consume according to their pre-set identities. There, everyone is in their own place, happy and contented, and everything that humans have dreamed of for hundreds of years seems to have come true. However, one day, someone finally discovered that we do not need such comfort. We need poetry, we need real danger, we need freedom, we need good, we need evil...
"Brave New World", written by Aldous Huxley, is one of the most classic dystopian literatures of the 20th century. Together with George Orwell's "1984" and Zamyatin's "Us", it is known as the three "dystopian" books and has a profound influence on domestic and foreign intellectual circles. Citing extensive knowledge of biology and psychology, it depicts the fictional society of 632 Ford Era, that is, 2532 AD. This is a society where people are controlled from birth to death. In this "brave new world", due to the development of social and biological control technology, human beings have become dolls in the hands of monopoly genetic companies and politicians. This domination even begins at the genetic and fetal stage.
This is a society with classes and social division of labor. Human beings are incubated under genetic control and divided into five classes, each engaged in social activities of different natures. People are accustomed to whatever job they are engaged in, and regard harsh living and working environments and extremely high work intensity as happiness. Therefore, this is a happy society, and this happiness can also correct people's thinking through human intervention such as hypnosis. The state also distributes a psychotropic drug called Soma to make people forget all unpleasant things.
Reader comments
Recently I am reading "Brave New World", "Us", and "1984". First of all, I am very impressed by the great writers who use their rich knowledge reserves to describe a future "Utopia" for us, but the thinking behind it is very scary. Human beings no longer reproduce on their own. Human beings are incubated in test tubes and mass-produced on assembly lines. All human life and activities have been formatted. Humans are no longer independent individuals. They are symbols, nothing more than robots with cells that can speak and breathe. Suddenly I came across that the major platforms now push us what they want to show us. Are these capitals trying to control our thoughts from now on? I want everyone to become flesh and blood and breathing people, but what about people whose thoughts are formatted and controlled?
The logic is quite strict. It seems to be like this when reading this kind of books recently. It's scary.
I like the plot in the book about human beings being controlled by genes and divided into classes, which profoundly reveals the potential problems of society. The author Aldous Huxley is so knowledgeable. He uses the knowledge of biology and psychology to build this world. It is amazing! This book made me think a lot, and I recommend it to you!
Recently I am reading "Brave New World", "Us", and "1984". First of all, I am very impressed by the great writers who use their rich knowledge reserves to describe a future "Utopia" for us, but the thinking behind it is very scary. Human beings no longer reproduce on their own. Human beings are incubated in test tubes and mass-produced on assembly lines. All human life and activities have been formatted. Humans are no longer independent individuals. They are symbols, nothing more than robots with cells that can speak and breathe. Suddenly I came across that the major platforms now push us what they want to show us. Are these capitals trying to control our thoughts from now on? I want everyone to become flesh and blood and breathing people, but what about people whose thoughts are formatted and controlled?
The logic is quite strict. It seems to be like this when reading this kind of books recently. It's scary.
I like the plot in the book about human beings being controlled by genes and divided into classes, which profoundly reveals the potential problems of society. The author Aldous Huxley is so knowledgeable. He uses the knowledge of biology and psychology to build this world. It is amazing! This book made me think a lot, and I recommend it to you!