The thing is that BNW government has eliminated hunger, poverty, racism and war, which is a no small feat, even if you consider the price attached. Mustafa Mond is more of a tragic character, who genuinely could not see any other option to help humanity other than world government's dehumanizing benevolence.
IRL world leaders are psychopaths and narcissists, who will gladly see the world burn, if they profit from it.
It's pretty good as far as dystopias go. They don't imprison you or torture you if you break the mold, they just let you go on an island and be less happy. Let the redditors have drugs and stack boxes and listen to music about how great it is to be a redditor, and if you wanna be based and redpilled, go do it, free of redditors.
There's one weird passage about little kids playing some kind of s*x game, and I'm not sure what that's about. Cliff Huxtable seemed like a better writer than to just fall back on, "and if you don't understand that they're bad, they're all libertarians."
It's an interesting read, but nothing profound. 1984 was better. My friend kept trying to get me to read The Island which is apparently a psuedo sequel where Huxley did a bunch of drugs and got more philosophical and I couldn't get through it.
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I doubt the current crop of reddits can even handle Pride and Prejudice. Heck, I doubt they can even read the Lord of the Rings books at this point.
1984 is pretty kino separate from the meme existence. They should have read it in high school though. We gotta get kids to read. We are so fricked. This is my fault.
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Skimmed the whole thread. Noted not one person had a tangible connection from 1984 to our current state of affairs. So as usual:
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A better book is one where the government kills all the worthless junkies like /u/pineappleferry.
No point responding to OP. It's a fake account.
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Redditors just like Brave New World because of the state-sponsored weed pills.
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See?! It's actually a good society!
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It's pretty good as far as dystopias go. They don't imprison you or torture you if you break the mold, they just let you go on an island and be less happy. Let the redditors have drugs and stack boxes and listen to music about how great it is to be a redditor, and if you wanna be based and redpilled, go do it, free of redditors.
There's one weird passage about little kids playing some kind of s*x game, and I'm not sure what that's about. Cliff Huxtable seemed like a better writer than to just fall back on, "and if you don't understand that they're bad, they're all libertarians."
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Golden age sci-fi authors were all s*x perverts.
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Heck yeah!
Space s*x, baby.
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Haven't read it in years, and almost all writers of fiction have worthless opinions about society, so .
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It's an interesting read, but nothing profound. 1984 was better. My friend kept trying to get me to read The Island which is apparently a psuedo sequel where Huxley did a bunch of drugs and got more philosophical and I couldn't get through it.
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FTFY
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Seems more like benzos or maybe molly.
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Read another book, same for The Handmaid's Tale. Go read Pride & Prejudice instead of dystopian slop.
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I doubt the current crop of reddits can even handle Pride and Prejudice. Heck, I doubt they can even read the Lord of the Rings books at this point.
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I love Pride and Prejudice so much. It's especially amazing considering how badly paced novels were back then.
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Return of the king (movie) sucked so I stopped after I read the hobbit
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1984 is pretty kino separate from the meme existence. They should have read it in high school though. We gotta get kids to read. We are so fricked. This is my fault.
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wow thank youfor the insight kind redditor
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I do not regret banning so many people. I regret having to resign as early as I did so I couldn't ban more.
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