Is about a neo-feudal technocrat distopia.
But reading amuse yourself to death, btw I didn't like that much, really superficial I started to think about how the world of brave new world looks like a possible future nowdays and a consequnce of neo-liberalism. What do you think of this book? Give me sone interesting key of lectures and apply the analisis to today socio-political situation.
Pic is not 100% related, confronting 1984 with BNW is kind of american high-school tier, Who knows tho maybe someone here can give me good insights.
Also, don't post the "Huxley was superior to orwell" pasta. I still don't know how to feel about huxley writing style
Thoughts on Brave New World?
Daniel Davis
Camden Perry
It tells me that we need more luddites
Jonathan Cox
Are they even still a thing nowdays?
Parker Edwards
Kind of a dumb thread I feel like.
BNW felt like really dumb genre-fiction for a good chunk of it but the savage's character and horrified reactions to the society were pretty great.
1984 is more memorable tho :^)
Easton Allen
Yeah, try visiting Holla Forums
Jaxon Reed
The future will be some horrifying amalgamation of Huxleanism but spread with Orwellian tactics.
Henry Williams
One of my favorite books.
When I read it in high school I just enjoyed reading it and didn't worry about any deeper meaning.
Our big picture topic for that year was alienation and we had to link everything back to that concept.
Looking back I was such a STEMlord idiot to hate English class.
Mason Perry
The one issue I have with it, and I should preface this by saying it's a worldbuilding issue (autistic I know), is why bother with the lower three castes when you could just build robots? The world is clearly technologically advanced.
Robert Cruz
its a good book explain why people shouldnt put total faith in technology and the government and also one of its main themes is basically alienation and how people most of the time with the help of the government attempt to deal with it with drugs and other vices
shame its been turned into a quote mine like 1984 that rightists use to point out that "leftists are the true fascists"
Logan Young
Tbh if one looks at BNW as a story about the elimination of pain, in the liberal sense, they kinda got a point. Looks like liberal utopia to me fam
Benjamin Williams
Because robots won't horrify you as much.
Are you sure this wasn't explained though? I feel like some character may have mentioned the importance of hierarchies and that having a lower caste to look up to the higher caste is just as important to both. Or maybe thats just my interpretation.
Dylan Cruz
Reading BNW is only half the equation. If you haven't read The Island, your training is incomplete.
Josiah Perry
You can immediately notice a pseud when they say "akshually, brave new world is a lot better than 1984". People who parrot this didn't actually come to this conclusion by themselves, they heard it from someone who heard it from someone etc.
You should read Orwell's review of it.
Oliver Hall
Link?
Jack Wood
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Charles Thomas
Calling it neo-Feudalistic is an insult to Feudalism.
Jacob Myers
You should read Pynchon's essay on 1984.
Ethan Carter
Or they've read both books.
Levi Myers
Ryder Peterson
We need agrarian socialism
Blake Howard
*Lysenkoism
Wyatt Adams
Ethan Nelson
Bump