![]() Subsequent history has vindicated his pessimism.īrave New World’ s significations flow from Huxley’s vision of reality and human nature and its implications for proper living. Reading the signs of his times, Huxley saw awaiting us a soulless utilitarian existence, incompatible with our nature and purpose. Huxley himself described its theme as “the advancement of science as it affects human individuals.” Brave New World Revisited (1958) deplored its vision of the over orderly dystopia “where perfect efficiency left no room for freedom or personal initiative.” Yet Brave New World has a deeper meaning: a warning, by way of a grim portrait, of life in a world which has fled from God and lost all awareness of the transcendent. ![]() Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) is commonly seen as an indictment of both tyranny and technology. ![]()
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