/lit/ - Literature

>>13032478
it's been held to be this terrible dystopian future where everyone's anesthetised, tame and dominated by consumer culture and hedonism (you know, the counterpart to 1984) when in reality the author unwittingly described a perfect world where everyone is actually, honestly content with their lot, there's no suffering or disease and the drug of choice is 100% side-effect free and better than anything we could possibly make in a lab these days. The only reason it's played as something terrible in the book is because of one FAS baby and one christian troglodyte don't like it. It's Huxley being a grumpy old man complaining about kids these days and being intimidated by technology and progress. It's a fucking "back in my day" disguised as a dystopian sci-fi epic. I would KILL, I would MURDER my entire family and yours for a chance to die and be born again in such a world, even if it meant being an Epsilon Minus.

It's still a great book, though, won't deny credit where it's due.