In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of his fictional fantasies had grown uncomfortably close to the truth. Brave New World Revisited includes Huxley's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control, and is an urgent and powerful appeal for the defence of individualism still alarmingly relevant today. (20031017)
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A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling (Observer )
Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression, Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayed (The Times )
A fantastical look at the world in the future which made me look differently at the present (Katie Melua Observer )
Lucid and well-reasoned...one is captivated by Huxley's knowledge and his even more extraordinary intelligence (Sunday Times )
Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression, Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayed (The Times )
A fantastical look at the world in the future which made me look differently at the present (Katie Melua Observer )
Lucid and well-reasoned...one is captivated by Huxley's knowledge and his even more extraordinary intelligence (Sunday Times )
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It's hard to explain the liberation I felt after reading this book. The maxim 'knowledge is power' has never been more true. Huxley shows with such clarity and lucidity, the way all our lives are controlled by over-organisation, indoctrination and propaganda. "The stuff of conspiracy theories," people might say? Think again.
Huxley shows how peoples perception of freedom is based on what you are told and understand freedom as actually being or looking like. He explodes this idea and goes on to show how our lives are shaped and controlled by those we elect to 'lead us'. To show how this can be done he cites the obvious yet accutely sharp example of Hitler's use of propaganda in bringing an entire German nation round to his way of thinking.
It goes without saying that if Hitler can use propaganda on such a dramtic level to control peoples views and ideas of what 'the truth' is, then its not beyond anyone else with large amounts of power to use those methods in other ways.
I urge anyone reading this review to buy the book, read it and pass it on to others. You will never look at the world and our system of governments the same way, ever again. If this leaves your perceptions of the world around you unchanged then Ill give you a refund myself.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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If you have read both Brave New World and 1984 (George Orwell), then you must read this. It has no storyline or plot like the above, but it surely compares and explains both books a little better. It also relates examples from real history (Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia). The book can be seen as both a foreword, an epilogue and the research to "A Brave New World" I very much enjoyed both Brave New World and 1984, but after reading BNW Revisited you will have a completely new perspective of the world around you. A must read after BNW and 1984.
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This book by Aldous Huxley is a very chilling read.It predicts the rise of globalisation by large companies,the propagandisation of the media by mega rich individuals with their own political agendas and the loss of individual freedoms.
As you read the book you start to realise how much ground has been lost by the
individual and how much has been gained by the establishment and the powers that
be.A very real but very frightening glimpse of the future.Highly recommended.
As you read the book you start to realise how much ground has been lost by the
individual and how much has been gained by the establishment and the powers that
be.A very real but very frightening glimpse of the future.Highly recommended.
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