Comment by JKCalhoun
3 hours ago
No spoilers, but I've come to think that "Brave New World" actually is Utopian—in the "give people what they want" department.
3 hours ago
No spoilers, but I've come to think that "Brave New World" actually is Utopian—in the "give people what they want" department.
But they get conditioned to want to be cogs. At any rate, Huxley certainly did not intend it as utopian: https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/
About his ideas for utopia he wrote "Island": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
His brother was Julian Huxley who was a prime mover in creating the UN. Julian had some curious views about the direction of the human race which may have found their way into Aldous' work.