“In Brave New World, Huxley paints a picture of life in a world where every physical need and desire is met, where family no longer exists because procreation is automated (eliminating the need for loyalty and monogamy), and where feeling good and mass propaganda campaigns are the means to controlling humanity. (It's sort of the flip-side of Orwell's 1984.) BNW Revisited is a series of essays (some quite outdated), mostly on the effectiveness of various forms of persuasion, written several years later. I read these while following the thread begun with "The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture" and "Climbing Parnassus."”
Anne R wrote this review Saturday, January 26 2008.
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