Comments on: Huxley’s Brave New World https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 04:00:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Walt Garage https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457857 Mon, 20 Feb 2017 04:00:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457857 I just re-read Brave New World recently and I did NOT find it horrifying. The baby factories were horrible, but the rest of the world seemed a pretty decent place. And if you were the type to find it uncomfortable, they didn’t kill you, they sent you some where you could be a little less bothered by the extremes and live your life.

If we could substitute robots for the genetically modified lower classes, I’m not sure I would mind living there.

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457856 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 03:40:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457856 I did look them up, but I didn’t know if that’s what he meant.

]]> By: Erp https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457855 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:33:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457855 Kevin — It says something when the Nobel prize winner in the family is less famous than his two half-brothers.

]]> By: Kevin O'Neill https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457854 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:52:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457854 MikeN – simple questions should just be looked up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huxley_family

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457853 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:27:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457853 What Huxleys are you referring to? There is Demolition Man which is an homage to this Huxley, Sandra Bullock plays Lenina Huxley.

]]> By: Kevin O'Neill https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457852 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:01:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457852 And let’s not forget Ape and Essence, my personal favorite.

“The leech’s kiss, the squid’s embrace,
The prurient ape’s defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/16/huxleys-brave-new-world/#comment-457851 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:51:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23700#comment-457851 How did tomorrow’s histories get written as last year’s works of fiction???

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