"that's why we get high"
still relevant. What do you think of the argument that BNW is a utopian future, not dystopian.
Not buying it. Everyone who is happy is painted in a deeply unsympathetic light, and everyone who struggles gets POV. Huxley makes it pretty clear who we're supposed to relate to as fellow human beings, and it isn't the guys who are enjoying themselves. I think the argument is sort of like saying Time Machine is Utopian because both the Morlocks and the Eloi are making a living at it.
On a side note, I often wonder how "Utopia" came to represent a nice place where everyone is happy and things work perfectly. In More's Utopia, Utopia is an island where slavery is a key aspect of life and private ownership of any kind is outlawed, a place where State is everything and person is nothing. If anything Utopia should signify what we call a dystopia, and dystopia should not exist. And I'm not picking on you, just throwing it out there, because its something we hear so much in pop culture.