Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I’d been wanting to read this book for a long time after seeing so many people loving and recommending it.
I had no idea what the book was about though, only that it was a utopian vs. dystopian world, or something to that effect.
Well, utopia and dystopia really quite describes this book. It’s about humanity’s quest for the perfect world; always stable, always enough for everyone, and everyone happy.
Unfortunately, it’s not quite so simple. To get this particular utopia, we have to lose our freedom to think, choose, and be different. So you’ll have to wonder, is this really utopia, the perfect world? Or is it a dystopia, a hell on earth?
This is a thought-provoking read, and there are so many things I could discuss about it. Foremost on my mind, is that we’re are already living in a sort of utopia/dystopia. Not as extreme as the one that Huxley writes about, but to a degree. That is, if we recognize it.
Books like these are scary, because they’re entirely possible. It could happen if we let it. This is definitely a book everyone should read and think about.
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