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318 sats \ 12 comments \ @BTCFC 14 May BooksAndArticles

Finally got across to finishing Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Required me to be patient, but the latter half definitely had me paying close attention.

Here are a few passages I highlighted:

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it."

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

A book I will without a doubt go back and read again.

Up next, probably Atlas Shrugged!

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120 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 14 May

Whenever I see Brave New World being mentioned, Chapter 3 always come to mind for me. I was quite confused by the constant jumping around of different scenes in that chapter when I first read it. I didn't really understand why Huxley wrote it like that, but it was quite hard to follow during my read through.

Overall, I enjoyed the world building and plot of Brave New World. Another dystopian take on the future of our species that contrasts 1984. Brave New World uses genetic engineering, selective breeding/cloning, medication, pleasure, and introduction of broken morals when young to control humans; while 1984 uses surveillance, propaganda, brainwashing, and violence to control humans. Both very scary worlds and both serve as good cautionary tales to the consequences and destruction caused by central planning.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 14 May

Both are tyrannical regimes with full government control, Brave New World describes the West while 1984 describes China. Both approaches rolled out under our own eyes with crises used as boosts to speed-up the full implementation of police states

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 14 May

Often hear people say that it's a difficult read and agree. Simultaneously one of the few books I managed to read in an evening cover to cover. Think it just requires the right headspace and imagination.It changed me as a person after that.

Just hearing the names of the characters takes me back into the book. That was one thing that I think was distracting (the names of characters) probably more a reflection of the current day. I tried reading The Island after that, but didn't get the same depth from it, still an interesting work of fiction.