Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

This is an awesome book (this part is not up for debate). But apart from it's merit as a work of fiction, it also show's us how a liberal society can be more oppressive than a totalitarian one.

Opinions?

I read this book long ago, as an assignment for school.  I'm a science fiction buff, so I enjoyed it, at least until I realized how completely lame it was.  Even while it was really slow-moving and boring, and didn't even tell much of a moral, I have respect for it due to its originality and the fact that it is a classic work of literature.

I suppose one might consider it to be "slow-moving" and "boring" if you have a short attention span. As for it's moral, it doesn't have one. Mr. Huxley had the good taste not to shove dogmatic propaganda down our throats, and instead merely presented a believable future world in which runnaway hedonistic liberalism has created a society more socialy constraining and oppressive than any of the totalitarian societies of the past. It also shows how losing touch with holistic and heroic values in exchange for "individuality" and personal comfort and hedonism produces docile, unimaginative, and inneffectual people.

Anyone have any real opinions on these things?

As for it's moral, it doesn't have one. Mr. Huxley had the good taste not to shove dogmatic propaganda down our throats,

People who read stories for their morals are douchebags.

Morals are for douchebags, just an excuse for denying reality and justifying parasitic behavior.

Anyone have any real opinions on these things?

*coughchokesputter*  >_o;  I did give my real opinion.

Furthermore, a slow-moving plot has very much to do with the style/skill of the author, and very little to do with the attention span of a reader.

Very well, then what is your opinion on the rest of the things I said in my post, as, those are the things I am most interested in getting a responce to.

Well really you said it all in your first post. What is there to add to that? I don't think anyone is going to disagree with you.

Brave New World was good in 8th grade.

Brave New World was good in 8th grade.

Why don't you do the world a favor and huff some zyklon b.

You mean like Aldous Huxley did to write this novel?

BURN!

You mean like Aldous Huxley did to write this novel?

BURN!

I think you've missunderstood the meaning of zyklon b.

Why don't you do yourself a favor and huff my ass crack.

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PWND!

Yay...HFF, you're a douche for using that kind of picture so flippantly.

Ya, rly.

You are so fucking awesome.

HFF's rep is -4.

No one loves him. :'(





And no one will offer him sympathy.

Correction: -5

No comeback (for I have no l33t photoshoping skills), but you might enjoy this piece of media (its relevant):

Housewitz!!

YOU. Need to fucking DIE.

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Housewitz!!

K BYE THEN

HFF is now banned. ~

Naturally. I told Silver a week ago that he would be.

I like the part where he said it was relevant even though it had nothing to do with classic literature.