“The society described in Brave New World is a world-state, in which war has been eliminated and where the first aim of the rulers is at all costs to keep their subjects from making trouble. The prophecies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would… The nightmare of total organization…has emerged from the safe, remote future and is now awaiting us, just around the next corner.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited Why Pleasure and Distraction are a More Effective Means of Control Than Fear and Punishment

The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep-teaching - these things were coming all right, but not in my time, not even in the time of my grandchildren…Twenty-seven years later, in this third quarter of the twentieth century A.D., and long before the end of the first century A.F., I feel a good deal less optimistic than I did when I was writing Brave New World. “In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time. Others, show that many of the ideas in Brave New World have alarmingly The following quotes by Aldus Huxley, and This novel depicts a dystopian society in which pleasureĪnd distraction, not fear and punishment, are used by those in power to maintain In 1932, Aldus Huxley published his most famous

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