Thoughts on Aldous Huxley?

Brave New World was more of criticism of the capitalist consumer society and eugenics than utopian socialism, even though there are some utopian elements in it. The savage isn't necessarily a better human being, it's that compared to the Nietzschan "Last Men" of the BNW dystopia is more human and passionate than them.

I always felt like it was Brave New World, not 1984, that reflected the direction the porkies want the world to head in.

/lit/ will tell you BNW is poorly written and clumsy. However, when you realize how quickly it was written, and then rewritten from scratch, you'll realize it wasn't made to be pretty.

BNW shackled me into depression.

you mean the shit

It's not anti-sex. And the soma thing doesn't mean it's anti-drug either. It denounces the use of pleasures as more effective means of political control than traditional coercive tools. Panem et Circenses.

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huxley loved drugs when used well

Pretty okay dude.

i always thought the island for those who don't fit in to the collectivist society would be a fun place to end up

Brave New World Revisited is a good one too.

It's not anti-sex.
It's anti- pleasure for pleasure's shake. Pleasure as control mechanism.

I had a moment of existencial horror when I told some friends of mine about soma and at first they thought it existed and wanted some.

That's my problem too. "You'll not like it in the end of the book" they said. … I'd still like to live there even after the end. And I don't like the fact that I would. I want to be a individual, but I know I'd be far better off not being a individual. Even if you were a Delta, you wouldn't care as you never knew better.

It's literally just a recreational drug. In fact, it's even more benign as I believe it's not addictive.

He had a bit of a reactionary streak in him, which I guess accounts for his fascination with Hinduism.

His death fascinates me though. I can't imagine what dying while tripping on LSD is like.

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Lol that's hardcore.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

is doors of perception worth reading or is it just a well written trip report?

You can make a request for LSD? Was it illegal then?

Lel he died on the same day as JFK and CS Lewis

Soma is definitely addictive. Not as addictive as opiates, but addictive nonetheless because your body metabolizes it into a barbiturate.

Lots of professional wrestlers from the 90's were addicted to soma. Ate it like candy.

He's completely right. Anarchy evolves into government and that government is the true government people want.

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At that point it had only been illegal in California (where he died) for only a month. I imagine it was still very easy to get.

It wasn't made illegal on a federal level until 1968.

Actually never mind, it was made illegal in CA in 1966 and then illegal at the federal level in 1968. When he died it was still legal.

this image is retarded, they even talk specifically about the fucking lottery in 1984 and how proles are deliberately distracted

fuckin' liberal

read Island, where socialism isn't called socialism (the islanders actually have Buddhist socialism) but we learn that imperialism is just as bad as ML! It's one thing to criticize ML and 20th century socialism, but my God, it's like the most common cheap shots and liberal rhetoric. I think the psychedelic drugs turned him into a liberal/apolitical. I push for their use all the time, but making people stupid liberals is one of the worst things about them (they start believing eastern mysticism at face value, 'nothing is real' or 'you can't change anything' or even more outlandish claims. Oh and Doors of Perception is worth reading

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I disagree .