![]() ![]() Savage.” John concedes, but admits that he does like some things, such as the constant sound of music. ![]() So Mond arrives at his office and says to John, “So you don’t much like civilization, Mr. His entire world-view is based on his knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays, which he can quote with great facility. The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit in to World State society. John (The Savage) is the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State. To set up today’s book excerpt from Chapter 16, I will give you a brief character description and some background so you can follow along: The following extract from Brave New World I found congruous to what kind of worldview the new ethics movement has in store for us if not enough people have the ‘will’ to speak up for those aspects of freedom which intellectuals have outlined in my previous posts.Īt a speech given in 1961 at the California Medical School in San Francisco, the author of Brave New World Aldous Huxley said: “ There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”Ĭould Huxley’s forewarning be analogous to the affects social media platforms, big tech and AI (including those wretched algorithms), The Great Reset initiative by The World Economic Forum and Eugenics development have had on shaping our society’s destiny? I have just revisited it again, but this time in Spanish (see image inset). ![]() We were assigned to read Brave New World in High School and I’m willing to admit there was a lot I couldn’t grasp back then. This week in Wednesday’s literature piece we are taking a peak at one of the all-time great novels about the dehumanising aspects of scientific progress. ![]()
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