>muh caste
>muh soma
>muh government makes people dumb
How the fuck do people like this shit? The whole book is a nuisance.
>>7703395
You can describe any book ever written with
>muh x
>muh y
try harder
>>7703395
>muh reductionism can turn any book into a pile of shit to make me look edgy and smart.
>>7703395
>he reads blueprints of utopias for plot
>>7703395
The way that the society controlled it's people was quite Orwellian and disturbingly like real life. This book is a harsh warning and it's a shame more people haven't read it.
>>7703395
You pissed the point, champ.
>>7703747
>Orwellian
>Was written 17 years earlier
>>7703709
This. Either OP read an online summary, or is shit posting about a book just to shit post.
>>7703395
Fuck off retard.
>>7703775
Reading 1984 is necessary to feel why the word 'Orwellian' exists and can be applied to works written before him. I read that book front to cover in one sitting. I felt depressed for the rest of the week. The man had a great talent for prose that Huxley lacked, though Huxley's political ideas are every bit as powerful.
It's also pretty much the harshest criticism of utilitarianism in print. I remember arguing with someone about political liberty somewhere, I used BNW as an example of how hedonistic pleasure isn't an end all, be all. He responded by saying BNW was a utopia and anyone who thought otherwise was deluded.
It pains me to know that people like this exist.
>>7704240
I was going to post about how people that view 1984 so highly should be shipped off into concentration camps, then I remembered that the US already exists.
>>7703747
Everyone has read it. Everyone.
>>7703747
There's no need to read it.
Just pick up a fucking newspaper.
>>7704240
>He responded by saying BNW was a utopia and anyone who thought otherwise was deluded.
And if 1984 was real life he'd be a prole.
>>7704240
>I used BNW as an example of how hedonistic pleasure isn't an end all, be all.
>He responded by saying BNW was a utopia and anyone who thought otherwise was deluded.
Wut, were you speaking with a fucking crackhead?
I think people should not be allowed to read 1984 or Brave New World until they've written a 5000 word essay on how modern, Western democracies have unprecedented and generally increasing levels of freedom, education, and quality of life.
>>7705248
Isn't that the whole point of BNW though? Overwhelming variety and information overload?
>>7704240
Most likely he didn't read the book and doesn't realize that a utopia is meant to be an idea that is nice on paper but impossible or destructive in reality. He just heard that it's a book about a utopia and thought that it's automatically good.
>>7705269
There is no information overload in BNW. Most people don't know anything about world history or even how technology works unless it's their job to design it.
>>7703395
*bends you over knee*
*spanks you*
LEARN
*spanks you*
TO
*spanks you*
READ
*spanks you*
FOR
*spanks you*
DEPTH
*spanks you*
AND
*spanks you*
MEANING
*spanks you*
*spanks you*
*spanks you*
>>7704240
I preferred Huxley's prose to Orwell's, though.
>>7705344
Thank you daddy ;)
>>7703395
Hacksley's shite isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Why do you faggots fall for bait?
