Freedom, creativity, inventiveness, art, scientific discovery, any form of personal spontaneity is a virtual impossibility given the brave new world system. Effectively, the cradle-to-grave existence of Huxley’s various populations is remarkably suppressed by the social orders in which they live.

Unruly class systems are converted into caste systems, and the high-born (alpha-pluses) are as rigidly managed as the low-born (epsilon sub-morons). Virtually nothing happens spontaneously, as even the number and aptitude of the newborn are rigidly controlled.

Huxley’s society is preplanned in extremis. Both recount a modern dystopia – worlds in which individual freedoms have been drastically limited in pursuit of a rational, orderly and stable society. In certain ways this is true, but in other significant ways it is not. The original Brave New World has often been considered a companion piece to George Orwell’s 1984. What is even more startling about Huxley’s prescience is that, in the postmodern world, not only have some of his predictions materialized but that they have in a certain sense become signposts of the socio-political and cultural framework of the western world. In his 1958 revisitation of the brave new world he envisioned in 1932, Aldous Huxley was shocked to see how many of his predictions had been realized, and, even more so, how quickly they had arrived: “The prophesies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would” (Huxley, 1958:4). Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution (Huxley, 1958). He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them.

In this twelve-part work of nonfiction, one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. Written more than twenty-five years later, Brave New World Revisited is a re-evaluation of his predictions based on the changes he witnessed over that time. When Aldous Huxley wrote his famous novel Brave New World, he did so with the belief that the dystopian world he created was a true possibility given the direction of the social, political and economic world order. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.' - New York Times Book Review 'Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931.

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