Originally posted by frenchblueC2:
Originally posted by JEDsContour:
My brain hurts reading this. Its a "Brave New World" on CEG and with this subject I feel much as Aldous Huxley did (in his real life, not his fiction).


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I don't think so. A little background:

Aldous Huxley was a prophetic science fiction writer. In 1931 he wrote â??Brave new worldâ? one of the 20th centuries really great pieces of literature. Itâ??s an amazing read if you have the capacity for it. He describes a dystopian society where the population is controlled through happiness. Promiscuous sex (anything goes) and routine use of a drug called â??somaâ? being the primary mechanisms. He was the first science fiction writer to describe virtual reality â??feelies.â? Everyone is happy and no one is free. Every tool of science this society has is bent towards increasing the mindless pleasure of the population, making them more and more dependant on the government. Brave New World is a benevolent dictatorship: a godless, static, efficient, totalitarian welfare-state.

Sounds like a nice place to take a vacation maybe, but would you really want to live your life that way?

By a freak chance, a young boy from this society is raised by â??savagesâ? who live on a reservation and have rejected everything about this society (think Amish with a violent twist). There is a great scene where he is forced to choose between these ways of life. The â??World Controllerâ? (Mustapha Mond) explains to John Savage why contentment is more important than freedom or truth â??? at the end, John rejects the managed mindless happiness
Quote:

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.


Huxley himself intensely disliked homosexuality, yet many of his closest friends were known homosexuals. Huxleyâ??s wife Maria was an active bisexual and the couple was notorious for pursuing the same lovers together. Huxley seemed to really like this special version of an open marriage!

Maria encouraging her husbands extramarital affairs, introducing him to beautiful women he admired, preparing the amatory ground and saving him the fatigue of prolonged courtship. She was once quoted as saying â??you canâ??t leave it up to Aldeous, he has no taste.â?

A really strange and interesting man - but not homosexual.

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