Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: A sci fi about a dystopian future where the quest of happiness could lead to our downfall
Written in 1931, the book doesn't go too amiss with the foundations of the future in a mind numbing society where we are literally batches of humans literally farmed to perfection who live in a world of instant gratification and pleasure seeking (hmm sounds relatively familiar). The normal moral code of promiscuity, drugs would catch you offguard in today's world and if you lean by today's codes, you'd be what they call a savage in Huxley's book. As people lose individualism, pursuit of intellectual brilliance and ambition for being content and happy are about not shifting the inertia or changing the status quo. There is no drama in the storyline just like the life in the brave new world so did take some dredging through but introduces to new concepts of a dystopia which has been monopolised by George Orwell in common circles.
Neil Postman summarises this book best :
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."
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