![]() ![]() Read it and tell your friends to as well. ![]() ![]() Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited. The systematic drugging of individuals for the benefit of the Statewas a main plank in the policy of the World Controllers. Brave New World Revisited (Harper & Brothers, US, 1958 Chatto & Windus, UK, 1959), written by Huxley almost thirty years after Brave New World, is a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. ![]() Brave New World Revisited has a message that is as timely today as it was when Huxley wrote it: that humankind must educate itself for freedom before it is too late.īrave New World Revisited has such a powerful message that needs to be heard. In Brave New World, suggestibility was heightened not just through the use of technology, but also with a super drug called Soma. Far ahead of his time, he was worrying about man being humanity’s worst threat via such things as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion. Huxley used his knowledge of human relations to compare the modern world with the world he envisioned. We all know just how prophetic that novel came to be. The accompaniment to Aldous Huxley's equally brilliant Brave New World moves on from the analysis of scientific dictatorship that in 1932, when it was published, seemed so far-fetched as to be impossible. Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley Heron Books, 1969, b/w illustrations, decorative end-papers, hardcover Very Good Condition. Brave New World Revisited is a classic so much so that, although it was written in 1958, it is still being read and admired today. ![]()
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