![]() Huxley then progresses to detail how the familiar mind games from Brave New World are present in today’s society in the form of propaganda (both in democratic and tyrannical society), consumerism and the art of selling. In the cold war era of the 60’s, Huxley still maintains that the only way to facilitate such growth is by strict rulership. He explains, “ quick death by malaria has been abolished life made miserable by undernourishment and over-crowding is now the rule” (21). This, combined with exponential population growth, contributes to a more caste-like pyramid system of power as seen in Brave New World. What follows, claims Huxley, is the issue of maintaining the death rate. Keen to begin illuminating the similarities between our world and his Brave New World, Huxley first points out how the upper class is reproducing at a rate disproportionately less than that of the lower classes. ![]() He begins with simple logistics, covering such subjects as over-population, the subsequent moral issues of quantity versus quality, and the fear of over-organization. His book spends fifteen chapters detailing humanity’s societal tendencies, and fifteen times he clearly illustrates that we are entering a cowering, simpering New World. He begins by writing, “in 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time… Thirty-seven years later… I feel a good deal less optimistic than I did” (4). ![]() In his Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley writes to tell us how his nightmarish Brave New World has quite nearly become reality. ![]()
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