Imagine this ironic description of a doped populace to antidepressants, isolated and diverted by trivial concerns never claiming any intelligence, as in "Brave New World" we can only compare to leisure chosen for us and consultation of Internet in search of porn sites and dating without tomorrows. In this world of Aldous Huxley, this world better than all the others, we would forget completely everything that does not concern us personally, and would be quite unaware of the degree to which we are socially, economically, and politically influenced. It has an air of déjà vu, is not it?
Keep in mind, says Aldous Huxley, that brute force is not the only method the oligarchy uses to influence, organize, and ultimately control our thought and action of hard-won freedoms; it can equally be obtained by over-indulgence and the promulgation and deliberate fertilization of apathy engendered by focusing our minds on frivolous topics and created from scratch for the occasion.
Aldous Huxley himself said in 1960, almost thirty years after the publication of the "Brave New World" and in the preface of his revised version of the book, how he is alarmed to see how quickly such changes that he had imagined could materialize in just a hundred years, with the emergence of internationalism and major multinational companies unofficially controlled by oligarchical collectivist states referred to, already emerging and control of More and more of our social existence, economic and political. For example, what do we know about our world, beyond what we hear and see on TV? Electronic media are they not already directed and controlled by such States acting under cover of multinational private company?
Here is what we already feel a little uncomfortable, right?
Yet everyone will tell you with all the necessary insistence that books such as "Brave New World", "1984", "Fahrenheit 451," and most recently "Grandoria" are nothing but fantasies falling exclusively the domain of fantasy literature, it is only satyrs or fables, the author does not really earnest. Does this not as novels, indeed.
Want to know more? Then read "Brave New World"; But read it slowly and carefully, take notes, even, identify and count all the similarities you find between the fantasies of the author and our world today. After that, try to determine how far our world is from the "Brave New World" and what path we still have to go to be there totally. The youngest of us appreciate and even manage to sincerely love them, how unfortunate heroes are packaged and connected the "Matrix", yet how many of the less fortunate, realize how the world in which they like living there. Yes, they are taught well, although this is obviously to blame anyone, to occupy a precise place in contemporary society, with little hope of change for a better, and to repeat what the media teach them, and become clones devoid of individuality and self-esteem, repeating all the same, all having the same taste, the same opinions, the same desires, the same clothes of the same color, the same refusal to themselves to adhere as closely as possible to the same model of unique and collectivist thought in which happiness is a suspect.
Welcome to our nightmare, so. But beware ... it looks like what some call "Nirvana," and that's "Brave New World".
