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Originally posted by kane
if you haven't yet read Huxley's Brave New world. then read the papaer and watch the news and realize that this guy may have been a profit.
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A great book, yes. But his prophetic insight is more an acknowledgement of our unfortunate historical tendency to over-civilize and hyper-structure our societies, at the expense of individual expression. Or, said another, he was looking BACK as much as he was looking FORWARD.
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