Brave New World - Reflections on Humanity by Aldous Huxley
Huxley is often called one of the brightest minds of the last century, and I gladly agree.
His probably best known book is "Brave New World" about society in the year 2540. In the future peace and freedom have finally become reality (or does it only seem so?).
The painful experiences of a long war have produced a particular form of community that constantly disperses and primitively distracts itself with sex, consumption, and a new drug within a caste system (sound familiar?).
The world is run by a single government, procreation takes care of breeding centers for humanity. Encouraged to promiscuity, marriage and family were abolished, people are "bred" in constant quantity.
Yes, distraction, that seek today also the most!
No matter whether cell phone, face book, television or cinema, we can be sprinkled so gladly, only not think, gladly still a few beers (if I already hear the belittlement (*chen), I drink NO alcohol), drugs are there now at each corner (also intoxicating means are TABU for me).
This brave new world of Aldous Huxley I can highly recommend to everyone as reading, the way of life presented here is exactly the opposite of Buddha's teachings, enlightenment. In Huxley's utopia, people enjoy themselves to the bitter end and are distracted from reality.
Isn't this kind of distraction too similar to the way people will live in 2020, have Aldous Huxley's visions of the future perhaps already arrived today?
And do we really want to live like this, distracted, drugged up and remote-controlled? Constantly on the lookout for the next kick?
A bit more brutal, a bit more perverted, more sugar, more drinks, stronger drugs, further, higher, harder, more boom?
I for one don't want that!
I don't like this brave new world in 2020, I find it artificial, alien, harmful.
I like the way of the Buddha, the attitude of the holy man impresses me.
Yes, everyone should be happy in his own way, I don't see the brave new world of Huxley as utopian at all. Many have already accepted this world as their new home. I, for one, do not want to go there.
According to the historical Buddha, emptiness is form and form is emptiness.
Art is the governor of utopia
- Max Frisch - Swiss architect and writer - 1911 to 1991
Progress is only the realization of utopias
- Oscar Wilde - Irish writer - 1854 to 1900
Socialism is not a utopia but a tragedy, that is the point today
- Wilhelm Röpke - German economics professor - 1899 to 1966
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