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Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
- 01 Jan 1932
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TL;DR: Examining overpopulation, mass communication, big business, centralized government, the effects of television and advertising, this work is Huxley's polemic against modern society.
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Abstract: Written 27 years after the 1932 publication of "Brave New World", this book addresses the prophecies he made in that work, believing the far-fetched fantasies of his nightmare future to be turning too swiftly into reality. Examining overpopulation, mass communication, big business, centralized government, the effects of television and advertising, this work is Huxley's polemic against modern society.
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TL;DR: The Brave New World as discussed by the authors presents two different world-views based on different forms of life: New World's behaviorist way of living, which suppresses feelings, emotions and sensitivities by means of conditioning, because "everyone belongs to everyone else" in a hierarchically organized society.
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