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What We're Reading Now"Aldous Huxley describes the zealous need for perfection in a totalitarian society. It is an allegorical forewarning of how the need for perfection and technology will eventually ruin lives if taken too far. Even in the forties, Aldous Huxley foresaw what is occurring today with antidepressant drugs, cloning, and other technological advances. It is very thought-provoking and beautifully written. "KaylaFrazier - Books-A-Million, Tupelo, MS The astonishing novel "Brave New World, " originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class.
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(1932) , best-known work of British writer , paints a grim picture of a scientifically organized utopia. This most prominent member of the famous Huxley family of England spent the part of his life from 1937 in Los Angeles in the United States until his death. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through novels and essays, Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Spiritual subjects, such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, interested Huxley, a humanist, towards the end of his life. People widely acknowledged him as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time before the end of his life.
