huxley – www.musings.ch https://www.musings.ch Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:49:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.musings.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-56884-200-2-32x32.png huxley – www.musings.ch https://www.musings.ch 32 32 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World https://www.musings.ch/2020/08/20/aldous-huxley-brave-new-world/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:49:21 +0000 https://www.musings.ch/?p=625 Continue reading Aldous Huxley: Brave New World]]> Finished reading Brave New World, which I picked up after hearing about it in relation to Orson Welles’ 1984. – The setting is scarily accurate, and the notion of ‘hiding in plain sight’ is something I hadn’t considered in the larger context of… well… population/mind/opinion control? – The writing itself goes from excellent to rather bad, the story telling is so thin at times, it gets really boring (which I take Mr Huxley also figured as shown in his post-factum foreword (1947)). Overall worth the read, because thought provoking.

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