Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Genius
What Huxley essentially does in his speech is share his fear. He writes of a society that men reading it see as efficient yet inhuman. No man would want to live in a place where they really have no purpose or control over their own fate. No man wants his individuality stripped away in an effort to make a perfect society. His book describes people who are okay with their lives, because they don't know anything different. You can here in his voice that he fears the years to come. If people have already managed to make some of the ideas in his book a reality, just imagine what is to come. There may be a world where the masses are nothing but the masses and the leaders are truly superior beings. The leaders are keeping the population in the dark and therefore, able to do their will without resistance. Seeing parts of both Orwell and Huxley's work coming to life makes you wonder if they can become a reality. If it were to happen slowly and methodically, it may be too late before anyone sees what is truly happening.
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