[ExI] Brave New World (was Re: "Toward a Type 1 civilization")

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:26 PM 8/8/2008 +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:

>Certainly, Huxley does not approve of such world, even though he 
>falls short of offering any alternative, but the concern here is 
>that some well-intentioned, politically correct, "progressive" views 
>may incline in such direction, and this is why I think the novel has 
>still something to tell us, namely; "Is this really where we want to go?"

Huxley did offer an alternative, thirty later, in the utopian novel 
ISLAND. It's more a lightly-dramatized tract than a novel (like 
Skinner's WALDEN-TWO) but I can recall being enthusiastic about it 
when it came out; I doubt that I'd even be able to get through it today.

Damien Broderick