BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED

257 Pages·2004·0.38 MB·English

by  ALDOUS HUXLEY

BRAVE NEW WORLD
REVISITED
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Copyright
Brave New World Revisited
Copyright © 1958 by Aldous Huxley
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Contents
eForeword
Chapter 1: Over-Population
Chapter 2: Quantity, Quality, Morality
Chapter 3: Over-Organization
Chapter 4: Propaganda in a Democratic
Society
Chapter 5: Propaganda Under a Dictatorship
Chapter 6: The Arts of Selling
Chapter 7: Brainwashing
Chapter 8: Chemical Persuasion
Chapter 9: Subconscious Persuasion
Chapter 10: Hypnopaedia
Chapter 11: Education for Freedom
Chapter 12: What Can Be Done?
About this Title

eForeword
Being something of a prophet can be a grim
responsibility. InBrave New World Revis-
ited, a set of essays published in 1958, Al-
dous Huxley re-examines the issues and con-
cerns that inspired him to write the novel
Brave New World some 27 years earlier.
What had come to pass, especially in wake of
World War II at the height of the Cold War,
disturbed Huxley. He saw an overpopulated
world that had gravitated toward his dark
vision, in which freedom and individualism
were willingly exchanged for sensory pleas-
ure and endless consumption, making
“order” out of “chaos” — a world in which
people were, as the philosopher Neil Post-
man suggested, “amusing ourselves to
death.”