Thursday, December 08, 2005
I'm reading Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" right now (ironically, bought in China - although in the duty-free section in the Shanghai airport - I would imagine the most unregulated bookstore in China!). A scenario of a world of the future, written way before its time in 1932, that calls out to the luddite in all of us. Contrasting 'savage' reservations with the World Federation, it seems incredibly relevant given some of the headlines of these days related to progresses in genetic technology :
Gene Turn-Off Makes Meek Mice Fearless
Fetal Genetic Testing could allow doctors to spot hundreds of potential problems in unborn fetuses
Plus the numerous trends towards centralization of government and an edging away of many of our civil liberties effected by technological progress and a prevailing climate of fear
Russia reins in 'foreign influence'
The Patriot Act's Final Curtain Call
Huxley has been eerily prescient about a lot of the pieces of his picture of the future, I sure as hell hope he's not right about the package... ¶ 1:02 AM
Gene Turn-Off Makes Meek Mice Fearless
Fetal Genetic Testing could allow doctors to spot hundreds of potential problems in unborn fetuses
Plus the numerous trends towards centralization of government and an edging away of many of our civil liberties effected by technological progress and a prevailing climate of fear
Russia reins in 'foreign influence'
The Patriot Act's Final Curtain Call
Huxley has been eerily prescient about a lot of the pieces of his picture of the future, I sure as hell hope he's not right about the package... ¶ 1:02 AM
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40 years ago, people questioned the relevance of Huxley's dystopia, especially when it was compared to 1984. However, now 1984 is lacking in relevance and Brave New World almost seems inevitable. Scary shit.
We'll probably kill half of our population or nature kills us all before reaching the Brave New World. Dark,lifeless,boring world.. we are becoming. It's not too late to do good and pray to reincarnate into a butterfly :P.
In a world like today where nothing should be taken for granted, that book shows human decadence in all its splendor... truth or not... how far can we go?
About '1984' by George Orwell...
In Burma, where he lived for some time, they call him "The Prophet".
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/go-now.html
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In Burma, where he lived for some time, they call him "The Prophet".
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/go-now.html
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