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JKCalhoun 3 hours ago

No spoilers, but I've come to think that "Brave New World" actually is Utopian—in the "give people what they want" department.

customguy an hour ago | parent [-]

But they get conditioned to want to be cogs. At any rate, Huxley certainly did not intend it as utopian: https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

About his ideas for utopia he wrote "Island": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)

nephihaha an hour ago | parent [-]

His brother was Julian Huxley who was a prime mover in creating the UN. Julian had some curious views about the direction of the human race which may have found their way into Aldous' work.