Jeff
@jeff-xyz
5 chapters into Brave New World (no, not the new Captain America with Red Hulk). Wild that Huxley wrote this in the 1930s. Eerie that he was able to predict: • Genetically engineered humans • Soma = our Adderall, Xanax, SSRIs, and dopamine scrolling loops • Sex stripped and devalued of intimacy, mandated for social stability (dating app culture) • Ritualized entertainment that sedates, not inspires (Tik tok brain rot) • Consumerism baked into identity (losing spirituality and replacing it with buying things to make us feel whole)
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matthewb
@matthewb
always liked the framing of BNW and 1984 that posits that Huxley’s vision is that the things we love/enjoy will destroy us vs. Orwell’s vision that the things we hate/fear will destroy us. to me it always seemed like the former was more likely.
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Jeff
@jeff-xyz
The truth can be stranger than fiction.
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