Id actually argue it is Huxley because his brother was helping to invent it lol
Good book but wouldn’t put it in my top ten. Why are you so bullish?
The dystopic novel with the most powerful understanding of authoritarianism is not Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World, it's Lois Lowry's: The Giver.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9256088492147671651692363553.webp
Discussion
The Giver features:
- Malthusian fear spells about an uninhabitable earth and the subsequent necessary population controls.
- Daily drugs to suppress the human spirit, keeping communes under control.
- The total centralization of birthing and death.
- The realization of the communist ideal yet still being a hell on earth.
- The absolute suppression of the human spirit to allow for safety and "peace".
Agree that the Huxley family is important.
Missed an important one:
- The elimination of the family unit.
Finally:
- the standardization of euthanasia over natural death.
Julian Huxeley of UNESCO fame , right?
Yes that Julian Huxley.
I think John Mackey has one of the best explanations of the aristocracies’ (especially in England) fascination with Malthusian ideas comes from the fact that they are put out by entrepreneurs using their wit and social mobility to outpace the landed aristocracy. To protect their egos they adopted the Malthusian cult dogma. The Huxley brothers are stereotypical Malthusian aristocrats. Even Aldous (only intellectuals should be allowed to do psychedelics)