![]() ![]() People start having sex in preschool, just as they do in certain Southern U.S. You love the smell of rotting cabbage and are aroused by old sofa cushions, much like in certain areas of New Jersey. So if you're a garbageman, you are genetically predisposed to love hauling, moving, and rummaging through garbage. People love their jobs (we are talking in-the-book, mind you) through subliminal messages while they sleep. The book itself gives useful help on ponderousness, frequently using sentences longer than the time it takes to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, including "wardrobe malfunctions." The book is also a prime cause of teen suicides.Īnd yet, Brave New World is not mere pornography, but science fiction. It is a popular book assignment in high school due to its depressing philosophy, which a student can be assigned to convert into a ponderously long essay. The book continues to be a staple of secondary education, as it lets kids read sexually fueled literature by an author who was high on every drug known to man, including soma and acid. Somehow Huxley has been able to work this theme into not only a story but an entire novel, and later, a children’s toy franchise specializing in action figures designed to shoot out those little spring-loaded missiles that seem to disappear within a few days of purchase. He wrote the novel as a counterpoint to the optimistic predictions of the future, such as 1984, that his contemporaries were putting out. ![]() Huxley conceived Brave New World after a vacation to America, where he was terrified by American promiscuity, mass-produced consumer goods, sparkling teeth, and large portions at restaurants. It depicts a utopian society of the future, one in which everyone is produced by cloning in a hatchery and forced into a caste system. The cover of the scholastic edition of the novel belies the pure smut within, to keep parents from yanking their kids out of school.īrave New World is a world-renowned science fiction novel, written by British social critic Aldous Huxley. ![]()
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