In the passing from one extreme to the other, there would be a long interval, so I imagined, during which the more fortunate third of the human race would make the best of both worlds-the disorderly world of liberalism and the much too orderly Brave New World where perfect efficiency left no room for freedom or personal initiative. Ours was a nightmare of too little order theirs, in the seventh century A.F., of too much.
“In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time… Covering topics like overpopulation, propaganda, and drugs, this collection of essays became Brave New World Revisited! These thoughts resulted in a series of essays highlighting many of society’s problems and potential solutions as he saw them. Fast forward to 1958 and he was shocked by how quickly society was moving towards his predictions. When Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, he set his sci-fi dystopia over 600 years in the future.
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