Brave New World Revisited

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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. Psychotherapy is largely concerned with the debilitating or anti-social consequences of past punishments. But unfortunately these countries lack not merely agricultural machinery and an industrial plant capable of turning out this machinery, but also the capital required to create such a plant.

Moreover, the psycho-physical by-products of punishment may be just as undesirable as the behavior for which an individual has been punished. Bernard takes a holiday with Lenina outside the World State to a Savage Reservation in New Mexico, in which the two observe natural-born people, disease, the ageing process, other languages, and religious lifestyles for the first time. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Hitler, for instance, deliberately scheduled his public addresses at night, a time when fatigue makes people vulnerable to suggestion, excitable, and most likely to succumb to the mass hysteria Hitler produced at his rallies.A new bitterness, and a new bewilderment, ran through all social life, and was reflected in all literature and art. Given this fact, the probability of overpopulation leading through unrest to dictatorship becomes a virtual certainty. On the first Christmas Day the population of our planet was about two hundred and fifty millions—less than half the population of modern China.

He feels unfulfilled writing endless propaganda doggerel, and the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State make him restive. The nearly perfect control exercised by the government is achieved by systematic reinforcement of desirable behavior, by many kinds of nearly non-violent manipulation, both physical and psychological, and by genetic standardization.Courting disaster, Bernard is vocal and arrogant about his criticisms, and his boss contemplates exiling him to Iceland because of his nonconformity. Because he is unwanted in Malpais, he accepts the invitation to travel back to London and is initially astonished by the comforts of the World State.