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04-15-2002, 08:03 PM
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| @Fable, what's Brave New World?
Huxley's vision of a Big Brother future, with a young man who is raised outside the City by a tribe of primitives. He returns to the city because his mother was from there, and quotes Shakespeare's Tempest in referring to its mechanized wonders as "O Brave New World..." But the New World comes with a hefty price tag. The young man is both an individual and self-actuating, while the people of the city (and the vast number of humankind) are used to having everything given to them, without any responsibility or work. His alternative seems dangerously attractive, so the rulers use propaganda, editing footage of him, to make him seem like a buffoon.
Orwell's 1984 is more stark--it's truly a work of horror, IMO. But Huxley's vision is perhaps more disturbing, the more you think about it.
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