7/2/2023 0 Comments Brave new world book review![]() ![]() For me, the Musk/Ford connection is also made even more ironic considering Musk is almost undoubtedly destined to meet the exact same fate as Henry Ford – a man that was seen as the father of an industry, only to be pushed aside as everyone caught up and outpaced him. Everything is automated and manufactured to a point where laziness is basically the way the world works. This is a society in which one of the more bizarre plot points is that Henry Ford’s mass-production would be attributed to all facets of life in such a way that “Fordism” has become the de facto world religion. ![]() Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist.”įirst and foremost, I find it somewhat ironic that Musk (of all people) would be assuming that he would be on the side of “liberty” in a society such as the one found in Huxley’s novel. ![]() “ Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. I may end up calling this my Elon Musk’s Books “Cool Guys” Pretend to Have Read Book Club, and do more of these as he cites things. So here we are, after I have officially read the real version of Brave New World, and I will be looking at how it stacks up against other similar dystopian novels, and how off-base guys like Elon Musk are when they invoke it’s name to look like some kind of cool outlier or new age philosopher. It may have even been selected passages in a larger book, I honestly cannot remember. Once I rolled this round in my mind, it hit me – The only version of Brave New World I’ve read was some kind of edited young reader version I read in school – and even so, I barely remember it. It has been decades since I read 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, and I had been planning a re-read for a while. If a political commentator is not somehow likening the nefarious rival political party as being “Nazis”, they are undoubtedly referencing one of these books as somehow “exactly the same” as some minor inconvenience in their lives. Short of The Bible or Shakespeare, you will be hard pressed to find three other books so rarely read and yet somehow so frequently commented on as this trio. Pushing aside the obvious gut reaction of the meme being what a fifteen year old thinks is edgy, I chuckled realizing that half of the Elon-aficionados in the comments had obviously never read any of the books, nor had Elon considering the irony of a man of his stature posting it. The three circles were, of course, labeled “1984”, “Fahrenheit 451”, and “Brave New World”. That spot in the center was marked “you are here”, showing that whatever Musk felt the larger circles were about, they were playing into the zeitgeist of 2023. Featured in the image was a venn diagram with three large circles intersecting in the center. ![]() I was perusing Twitter about a week ago, and a meme posted by non other than everyone’s least favorite multi-billionaire, Elon Musk, was going around causing quite the stir. ![]()
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