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Brizoot t1_j11kamc wrote

Compared to the horrors of climate change, nuclear war and neoliberal technocracy, Brave New World seems pretty good.

Sci-fi and speculative fiction has its foundation in modernist thought which tends to be pretty optimistic about Humanity's prospects. In BNW Huxley inverted this assumption and pointed out how an instrumentalist approach to managing society could strangle the highest forms of Human thought.

Huxley probably wasn't thinking about how all the poets and philosophers would survive the collapse of agriculture and genocidal resource wars.

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SnooAdvice4813 OP t1_j11lm2o wrote

I dont fully understand your last point

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Brizoot t1_j11noqx wrote

Despite BNW being a subversion of modernist thought it is still wildly optimistic compared to historic events and what science has revealed since the book was published.

Banishing all subversive and creative people to remote islands where they get to spend all their time thinking about things still seems like a pretty good future compared to what's on the horizon IRL with regards to climate change and ecological collapse.

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