So, I havent read the book myself (only watched the crap show) but has Huxleys Brave New World accounted for the fact the hedonic treadmill means people get burnt out by superflous interactions of pleasure before such a world can even get built?
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Haven't seen the crap show, but I assume that's what the soma is for.
It changed a lot. It turned into a communist wet drram by the end, which was far more hopeful than the book seemed to take things.
The Soma was basically a magic addiction drug without the major side effects of addiction.
Ill need to read the book someday.
The book really is great. I've always felt that, between the two of them, Huxley and Orwell got it right. The dystopian future that were living in is like a remix of both.
I hear its also mixed with Anthem too. Nietzsche's Last Man has something to it.
Futurism wrote an article about how implants were already starting to cause identity based psychosis which sounds eerily similar to Cyberpunks Cyberpsychosis.
No. It starts with the world as-is.
There’s an outsider character who is brought into the world but rejects it. I recommend giving the book a try. It’s actually a fun read.
Outsider different from the main?
I know the book has the main character commit suicide after making a public spectacle whipping the woman he loves, eventually realizing he cannot save anyone from their hell.
The show turned it into a communist uprising because they wanted a second season.
I must read it but I have little time and many other things in the backlog as well.
I haven’t watched enough of the show to compare fully. But IIRC, the show actually gives more background on the world outside than the book does. The book spends more time describing the soma world than the external environment or its origins.
Well the book had the World State and the show has a city state. The show allowed for more to exist for future seasons and in the book the World State already controlled everything, from what I gather.