![]() ![]() People are literally bred into a rigid class system and designed for specific purposes. ![]() Reproduction is totally controlled through genetic engineering. "Community, Identity, Stability" is its motto. stands for After Ford, meaning the godlike Henry Ford - when mankind exists in an institutional form of happiness, managed by the World State. ![]() What has happened is closer to Huxley´s vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World - a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class.Īs scathingly satirical as it is disturbing, Brave New World is set some 600 years in the future, in "this year of stability, A.F. The modern world did not collapse into the cold, damp totalitarian hell Orwell described in his 1948 novel 1984. In the end, it was Aldous Huxley, not George Orwell (whom Huxley taught at Eton), whose vision of the future had the touch of prophecy. ![]()
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