Man were to be adapted and enslaved to them. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man, not (as at present and still more so in the Brave New World) as though In this community economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque co-operative. World, living within the borders of the Reservation.
Horns of his dilemma would lie the possibility of sanity-a possibility already actualized in some extent, in a community of exiles and refugees from the Brave New If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative. SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE.īut to return to the future. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD'S EDUCATORS. It should be located among the ruins of one of the guttedĬities of Europe or Japan, and over the entrance to the ossuary I would inscribe, in letters six or seven feet high, the simple words: The benefactors of humanity deserve due honor and commemoration. The implication being, I suppose, that the professor and his colleagues are hilarious symptoms of Symptom of the failure of an intellectual class in time of crisis. For having said so in several recent books and, above all, for havingĬompiled an anthology of what the sane have said about sanity and the means whereby it can be achieved, I have been told by an eminent academic critic that I am a sad On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity isĪ rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it. Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. "And so they died miserably ever after"-much to the reassurance of the amused, Pyrrhonic aesthete who was the author of In maniacal self-torture and despairing suicide. And at the close, of course, he is made to retreat from sanity his native Penitente-ism reasserts its authority and he ends Even his acquaintance with Shakespeare would For the sake, however, of dramatic effect, the Savage is often permitted to speak more rationally than his upbringingĪmong the practitioners of a religion that is half fertility cult and half Penitente ferocity would actually warrant. I found amusing and regarded as quite possibly true.
Aldous huxley brave new world free#
The Savage is offered only twoĪlternatives, an insane life in Utopia, or the life of a primitive in an Indian village, a life more human in some respects, but in others hardly less queer and abnormal.Īt the time the book was written this idea, that human beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other, was one that In the meantime, however, it seems worth while at least to mention the most serious defect in the story, which is this. And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something Rewrite the book-and in the process of rewriting, as an older, other person, I should probably get rid not only of some of the faults of the story, but also of such Its defects as a work of art are considerable but in order to correct them I should have to That is why this new Brave New World is the same as the old one. One's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth-all this is surely vain and futile.
Aldous huxley brave new world Patch#
To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed at its first execution, to spend The badness should be hunted out, acknowledged and, if possible, avoided Remorse,įor example is as undesirable in relation to our bad art as it is in relation to our bad behavior. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.Īrt also has its morality, and many of the rules of this morality are the same as, or at least analogous to, the rules of ordinary ethics. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can andĪddress yourself to the task of behaving better next time. Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is almost undesirable sentiment.
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