In 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote a classic dystopian novel Brave New World. It is about how a government regulates future society by scientific and sophisticated methods of social control.
Then in 1958, he revisited the novel themes by writing this book to express his views about overpopulation and over-organization leading to scientific dictatorship that will affect our freedom and morality.
What is memorable in this book is when he quoted a philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr Erich Fromm:
“Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure.”
How true.
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