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

[Damien Sullivan]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:24:39AM +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > Huxley did offer an alternative, thirty later, in the utopian novel ISLAND.
> 
> I heard he did. In fact, he is even apologetic on his "youth nihilism"
> in the preface to a subsequent edition of BNW. But while I am curious,
> I doubt that the "solution" he claimed to have later reached to be
> anything more than some kind of re-heated, bland humanism.

Whatever re-heated bland humanism means.

-xx- Damien X-)