Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
alpha0 · 4425 days ago · link · · parent · post: Huxley to Orwell on why Brave New World is more realizable than 1984
> I had a sneaking suspicion a BNW debate would bring you out of the woodwork!
Chance event; not lurking. > Let me clarify what I meant when I said that its the lack of free will and not the government itself that is the scary part of BNW. The fundamental pov of the ideological clique (ch 2-3) is that unmanaged nature is oppressive and the very source of human misery; that we do not have free will in a meaningful sense; that any notion of meat widget x jumping to siren song of hormones or to a manufactured psychological impulse (pavlovian) given by a social hierarchy being expressive of free will is an error; that the psychological comfort of projecting meaning into an otherwise mechanical existence is not worth the collective price. In T we trust. (aside: that T is the other crucifix ...)