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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</h1>
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2014-12-31
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/aldous-huxley/">#aldous huxley</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-1932/">#published:1932</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>There is a weird thing about "Brave New World". Well, there are a bunch of
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weird things, like the pacing, the idea in the early chapters which make it
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confusing to see where the author wants to go but, on top of that, there is
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this dystopian future (apparently, 300 or 400 years from the early 20th
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century) that sounds so much like our days.</p>
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<p>The book opens with a very dystopian society: People are bred, not born, and
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the needs of the society decide the type of people who will be born: Do we
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need more administrators? Then we'll have this kind of people; do we need more
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workers? Then we'll have a bunch of twins with low IQ that will be prepared to
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do menial tasks.</p>
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<p>Not only that, but people are thought, at the very age, by continuous
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reinforcement propaganda that things like "marriage", "naturally born",
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"father", "mother" and other things are actually bad; we need more money being
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spent in the country, so let's train people to like being outside the cities;
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clothing is thrown away because that makes the clothing industry prosper
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(instead of simply mending); people are actually encouraged to be promiscuous
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(sorta) in other to never feel lonely.</p>
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<p>(In part, this resonates a bit with <em>The Robots of Dawn</em>, but while in Aurora
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people would engage sex when they felt like, in Brave New World people engage
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sex because they are massively pressured since their early training to do so.)</p>
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<p>But then again there are small pockets of people who are not part of the
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<em>society</em>, being kept in <em>Savage Reservations</em>. And when one of such "savages"
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is brought back into <em>society</em>, then we have our discussion about total free
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will and the workings of a completely conditioned and "harmonic" (with quotes)
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society.</p>
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<p>Again, it's weird to understand where the author wants to go in the early
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chapters, but the final chapters (with the exception of the end of the last
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one) are pretty damn thought provoking.</p>
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