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... This is an island, figuratively and literally, surrounded by the envy, greed, and general unhappiness of the modern world. ... If we stop thinking of this perfection as an impossibility, however, we can come very close to paradise. ... Aldous Huxley has taken the time and expended the effort to produce two incredible works of fiction based on opposing views of Utopic paradise engineering. His novel, Brave New World, is a classic that is on the required reading list for most public high schools. In Brave New World (BNW) we get a view of the first of the two aforementioned Utopias. ... Island is a brilliant counterpoint to BNW and Huxley’s self-proclaimed best job of fusing point and plot. These two books leave one with an interesting, but relatively realistic view of Utopic paradise engineering. ... Perhaps one day we will see a successfully engineered paradise. ... The more dire prognostications of a Utopic society are centered around an evil that Huxley described as “The shortest and broadest road to the nightmare of Brave New World. ... Through ‘Bokanovsky’s Process’ humans are mass-produced. ... Huxley has taken our growing population problem to the limit so as to, hopefully, make it apparent that there is, indeed a problem. ... Programs that once provided funding for birth-control clinics in third world countries are being cut left and right on grounds of ‘morality. ... The fact that BNW predates World War II and these experiments is troublesome and causes one to wonder just how many other of Huxley’s predictions will come to be. ... Huxley shows us a beautiful example of a job well done with bioengineering in Island with the enhancement of fruit and vegetable harvest. ... Bioengineering to promote social harmony is present in the dealing with of what Huxley called “Peter Pans,” the late bloomers of their society. ... An enforced genetic caste system seems a bit to far to go and indeed not a necessary future for paradise engineering. ... Though this sounds like an irrational information bias, the people of Pala were encouraged to visit the outside world and were never lied to about the state of things outside Pala’s borders. ... In BNW there is an instance when the Controller (dictator) is reading through scientific reports, all factual things, and deciding which ones the public should be aloud to know of. ... In today’s world the media has a bias towards the larger companies because the cost to get in the game is so high that the smaller papers cannot keep up. ... Huxley writes that “We no longer buy oranges, we buy vitality. ... Televisions and radios pump subtle manipulations through our minds daily, we just don’t think about it. ... Huxley predicts that soon hospitals will be filled subliminal propaganda to sway the impressionable sick. ... Aldous Huxley created the perfect drug in BNW known as ‘soma. ... Huxley believed that the affects of these and other psychoactive plants, specifically peyote, were likened to having one’s reality filter suddenly removed and seeing the absolute everything that is reality at once. ... To all Libertarians out there: here is your paradise. |
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