Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Paperback – July 5, 2005

“It is rather alarming to find that only twenty-seven years [after writing Brave New World] quite a number of those forecasts have already come true, and come true with vengeance…Some of them were foreseen, and I think some of them I didn’t have the imagination to foresee, but I t think there is a whole armory at the disposal of potential dictators at the moment.”– Aldous Huxley [1958]Known for being one of the most influential dystopian authors of all time, Aldous Huxley, who was a jack of all trades, created his magnum opus, Brave New World in 1931, which was published a year later. Nigh nine decades later, many of his ominous and scholarly insights are manifesting right before our eyes. For these reasons, Brave New World should be read through rather carefully, for it serves as a severe warning not only about what might be coming, but what is already here.This particular fusion of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley truly is as fascinating as it is disturbing in scope. The former offers his vision of what a dystopian world might be like, while the latter offers a trenchant examination of Brave New World.While some may call some of Huxley’s ideas ‘prophetic’ in a sense, it’s more of a logical deduction given the available information that there was at a time. If one has a reasonable amount of quality information, one surely would be able to postulate a reasonable result given humanity’s penchant for falling for propaganda in droves historically. After all, most nations historically don’t operate under true freedom. What’s more, many ‘modern’ nations already implement many of the disturbing trends written about in this sobering, if intense account of could have happened, although in fiction, which is now turning into reality.Brave New World has been compared to Orwell’s 1984 due to the engineered control grid – each of which carries different methods – and with good reason. Whilst 1984 is ruled with an iron fist, Brave New World is ruled with a velvet one. Endless arguments have ensued in many circles as to which one we are gravitating towards, and it’s definitely intriguing although distressing contemplating such facts.Huxley does an outstanding job of painting a disturbing portrait within his fictional realm. The individuals within his society – who are essentially drones – have fallen over themselves for the ‘good of all’ – for the collective. The book is littered with countless examples of this.The individual, who is the foundation of society, is thrown aside, by the wayside.In respect to this troublesome and pernicious pervasive issue, which is seen more and more nowadays, Huxley noted the following words:“Brave New World presents a fanciful and somewhat ribald picture of a society, in which the attempt to recreate human beings in the likeness of terminates has been pushed almost to the limits of the possible. That we are being propelled in the direction of Brave New World is obvious. But not less obvious is the fact that we can, if we so desire, refuse to co-operate with the blind forces that are compelling us. As Mr. William Whyte has shown in his remarkable book, The Organization Man, a new Social Ethic is replacing our traditional ethical system – the system in which the individual is primary. The key words in this Social Ethic are “adjustment,” “adaptation,” “socially oriented behavior,” “belongingness,” “acquisition of social skills,” “team work,” “group living,” “group loyalty,” “group dynamics,” “group thinking,” “group creativity.” Its basic assumption is that the social whole has greater worth and significant than its individual parts, that inborn biological differences should be sacrificed to cultural uniformity, that the rights of the collective take precedence over what the eighteenth century called the Rights of Man.”[1]Furthermore, as Huxley notes, the:“…ideal man is the man who displays “dynamic conformity” (delicious phrase!) and an intense loyalty to the group, an unflagging desire to subordinate himself, to belong.”[2]Talk about a conformity crisis! That’s exactly where society is torpedoing to as we speak. And it all starts in youth, through the public schooling system.This conformity crisis in public schooling has been spoken about at length by John Taylor Gatto in his books, Dumbing Us Down, A Different Kind Of Teacher and Weapons Of Mass Instruction.In Dumbing Us Down – The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling, Gatto mentions the following explosive remarks:“Mass education cannot work to produce a fair society because its daily practice is practice in rigged competition, suppression and intimidation. The schools we’ve allowed to develop can’t work to teach nonmaterial values, the values which give meaning to everyone’s life, rich or poor, because the structure of schooling is held together by a Byzantine tapestry of reward and threat, of carrots and sticks. Official favor, grades, and other trinkets of subordination have no connection with education; they are the paraphernalia of servitude, not of freedom.”[3]“Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”[4]“…schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.”[5]Gatto minces no words. If you wish to see what is happening, right from the start via the public indoctrination system, READ John Taylor Gatto’s work. It is HIGHLY recommended.Returning to Huxley, the latter part of Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited also features Huxley’s letter to Orwell. Additionally, and arguably more importantly, the second book, Brave New World Revisited is absolutely mind bending.Brave New World Revisited includes intriguing information at length that supplements droves of added substance for the reader to familiarize themselves with some of the deeper niches of everything Brave New World stands for. One could view it as a few different essays on many of the most disturbing components and trends, featured in Brave New World, which society is currently following.Topics which are discussed include conformity, the collectivization of society, the attack on individuals, brainwashing, propaganda, social engineering, distractions within society, chemical persuasion, possible solutions and much more. Brave New World Revisited encompasses nigh 100 pages of additional information that should be essentially mandatory in education.It would be interesting to see what Huxley would have thought about the precision condition that is currently taking place on a mass scale in society today. There are so many angles to this, that one could write many essays and analyze it in a myriad of ways. Many have, and rightly so.With the recipes featured in Orwell and Huxley’s books, the system seems to be changing day by day, and not for the better. Propaganda, entrainment technology, social engineering, overmedication of the population, and more, are all being used to maliciously mold society to become not only uniform, but obedient to boot.Incisive individuals who value freedom and have inquiring minds should not only make this part of their library, but should prepare for what’s already here and much of what’s coming soon.Couple Brave New World with 1984, and you have the recipe of what the world is beginning to look like, which is a merger of those two ideals. And that’s a very, very disturbing proposition.Be warned._______________________________________________________________Sources:[1] Aldous Huxley, Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited, p. 257.[2] Ibid., p. 257.[3] John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down – The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling, pg. 69.[4] Ibid., p. 23.[5] Ibid., p. 21._______________________________________________________________If You are interested in the subject, the Book Reviews below follow as highly suggested reading:1984 by George OrwellDumbing Us Down by John Taylor GattoA Different Kind Of Teacher by John Taylor GattoWeapons Of Mass Instruction by John Taylor GattoRotten To The (Common) Core: Public Schooling, Standardized Tests & The Surveillance State by Dr. Joseph P. FarrellThe Tavickstock Institute: Social Engineering The Masses by Daniel EstulinTechnocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation by Patrick M. WoodPropaganda by Edward Bernays______________________________________________Kindest Regards,-Zy MarquiezTheBreakaway.wordpress.com

This prophetic novel was published in 1932, depicting a world where one central government has scientifically and psychologically taken over the means of production of the human race. People are grown on assembly lines—some purposefully under-grown so as to serve as the working class. Those who are Alphas have everything they want. Everybody is happy.Truth, science, and reason have all been scarified at the alter of happiness. The mass of regular citizens are all content in their jobs because they don’t and can’t imagine anything else. When they finish their work shift they are rewarded with a ration of soma, which is a soothing happiness-producing drug. Meanwhile the entirety of the elite class is sexually open to any and all partners, has access to a wide variety of games and stimulating pleasurable activities, and are hopped up on soma too. Everything runs smoothly, because everyone is happy.One day, our perfect world welcomes a stranger, a young man from an old Indian reservation that had remained independent of modern culture throughout the centuries. His arrival was a spectacle, and while at first he desired assimilation, his feelings quickly reversed. He did not understand why nobody had a mother, why nobody had a father, why nobody had a family at all. He didn’t understand the desire for soma and the appeal of mental vacations from the real world. He was heartbroken to see that nobody loved anymore, because love that was lost could potentially cause painful emotions. Everybody was living in a state of perpetual bliss due in large part to their ignorance of the wonderful depth of human feeling. He hated this world without books or religions or differing thought. It was numb.In George Orwell’s 1984, the government controls the populace through fear and force. Conversely, in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government has satiated everyone with endless amusement and distraction. Both men foresaw the future as a world dominated by tyrannical governments; Orwell envisioned one created via violence and punishment, whereas Huxley’s was brought into existence by positive reenforcement and non-violent manipulation. While Huxley set his dystopian society 700 years in the future, it is amazing how many of his ideas have become true or partially true within the first century after its original publication. How many of us today are politically mute in favor of reality television and drug use? It has become excessively easy to choose the comforts of cheap perennial entertainment and contrived happiness over the pursuits of truth and knowledge.The message between the lines is clear: we should all be wary of a system designed to desensitize us as individuals and distract us with shiny objects. The more we give in to the desire for creature comforts, the less fight we reserve for opposing tyrannical ideas and people. Everybody needs occasional leisure time, but do not let that become the norm. Comfort should be respected and not expected, because if we’re not careful, one day humanity will wake up and find itself devoid of all freedoms. If that day should ever dawn, we will most likely only have ourselves to blame.

Wow! I read this book back in the 1960’s in HS & as shocking as it was then, it was even more shocking now due to the events that have occurred in society since that time & the threats currently with the 2024 elections. It was startling to even fathom such high technology in reproducing humans & the Brave New World Revisited was even more startling with the discussions of how over-population are direct determinants of autocratic governments, among other things. To think this book was written in 1930’s in itself is shocking & to think these developments are around the corner is even more unsettling. It was definitely worth a read again!