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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

I haven't read this since high school, so was interested to revisit Huxley's consumerist, pill popping vision of the future, and found it disturbingly on the mark in many ways, but still wildly off the mark in others. The promiscuity, consumer culture, and pill popping surrender is here, but the sentimentality regarding the family is definitely still here, and then some, in hallmark variations... so good, and so sad. Soma for all.

1 comment:

Lexi said...

I like it very much! Thanks for sharing your art, Brandt! And oh, yes- Huxley (and Orwell!) were visionaries.