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philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family. It is known for novels,
essays, stories, travel literature, and film scenarios. Huxley was a humanist at the
beginning of life, at the end of which she became interested in spiritualist subjects
such as mystic philosophy and parapsychology.
He has written some masterpieces of English literature, utopia Brave New World
(The Wonderful New World) and a novel essay about pacifism, Eyeless in Gaza (Orb
in Gaza). Huxley was strongly influenced by F. Matthias Alexander, whom he
included as a character in the novel Orb in Gaza.
"The Wonderful New World" is a dystopian novel, reduced in volume, but depicting
a complex and integral landscape of a world at the height of the so-called "Heaven
on Earth," a goal almost indispensable to the modern man in our reality.
The "Wonderful New World," a work written in 1931, before G. Orwell's 1948 novel,
"1948," describes the future in another matrix, even opposite "1984" (as Huxley
even says) the future is not bleak by definition, but by essence. If 1984 speaks of
an Eastern dictatorship, Huxley speaks of the dictatorship of happiness and
convenience, relaxation, a desideratum of Western democratic regimes.
The system assures its existence by mutilation of the spirit and conditioning of
consciousness. If at Orwell the instinct is forbidden, at Huxley the instinct is not only
accepted, but pushed to paroxism. A world outside history, because history and
time have stopped. In this respect, American philosopher and political scientist
Francis Fukuyama in his book, "The End of History and the Last Man," predicts that
the universalization of Western-style liberal democracy signals the end of the
sociocultural evolution of humanity and the finalization of the primacy liberal
democracy) as the final form of government, the end of history is the end of the
ideological evolution, and in the post-historical period, there is no longer art and
philosophy, nor does anything happen, a period of eternal peace.
What Fukuyama claims with a positive tone is precisely the negative reality of
Huxley's "wonderful new world" society. A world of eternal peace where half a gram
of soma (the drug of the future) wipes out any disorder, hatred, pain, love and other
experiences that define the human being, all must be avoided, liquidated in the
name of "happiness." A world where consumption is the greatest value and
perhaps the only value besides happiness, although happiness could be abolished
if it were not so profitable and would not "make the wheels spin." Fukuyama himself
says that "Many of Huxley's technologies, such as in vitro fertilization, surrogate
motherhood, psychotropic drugs, genetic engineering in children's creation, already
exist or are seen on the horizon." Not only these facts draw near to Fukuyama's
predictions of Huxley's novel, but also the absence of art or philosophy in the post-
historical era, moreover, science in its present form no longer exists in the world
described by the English author, because it does not lead than Truth, Truth being
"a threat, and science - a public danger" when art "is incompatible with happiness"
and thus an equally serious threat to the stability of the system (Victor Raileanu,
Jan.2014).
The painted society in rthe "wonderful new world" by Huxley is a perfect one, in
which the basic principle is to ensure the happiness of individuals. Natality is strictly
controlled, children are born artificially, and destiny is pre-configured. A world
where children are born in laboratories, scheduled for a particular job. A world
where people are separated into intelligence classes, from Alpha Plusgenius, to
Epsilon Minus or Gamma Minus who are born to live under certain working
conditions. People who are never aging physically, and who ... sometimes ...
disappear.
Depending on the needs of the society, the exact distribution of each embryo to the
corresponding cast is made. Karma is a well-known issue. Education and social
regulations are programmed and planned and ensure a linear path of the individual
from birth to death. There are no other feelings besides happiness and comfort.
Diseases have been eradicated, old age has been abolished. For any frustrations
there is "soma," the drug that allows you to escape into a different world without
worries.
Familia, the basic cell of society, has been abolished, natural birth is unimaginable.
Absolute democracy has revolutionized even sexual relations: "Whosoever of us
belongs to everyone else." Without family there is no attachment, responsibility,
there is no jealousy, and everyone's instincts are fully satisfied. Sexual games are
encouraged ever since childhood, and adults can experience their experiences
using chewing gum with sex hormones .
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This world of absolute happiness can not exist without compromise without a
reverse. And the compromise is the emptying of the individual, an absolute
superficialization of the population that lives happiness exclusively by satisfying the
animal instincts. The being is empty, it no longer exists because the identity of the
individual is no longer there. Any departure from the pattern of the personality that
can no longer be controlled by the soma is isolated on an island where it is
provided with one another deviants excluded from the "normal" society.
Their way of learning is very simple: they listen to thousands of times during sleep,
and they find themselves "know from somewhere" to do different jobs or have
different information but can not make connections. Utopia is the basic word, and
the motto of this utopian world is "Community, Identity, Stability."
This world is provided with reservations, places where people read books and
believe in God. And in the reserves ... there are people ... who come in contact with
those in the wonderful new world ... They see them as strange ... And they make
their life a subject of TV without realizing that they are really free ...
Cu surely, any man as lucid as possible was asked by questions about the purpose
and destiny of the world in which he lives. Anyone who studied the development of
human society, who entered the fascinating story of history, was unable to remain
with history without trying to extrapolate. By looking through historical events, the
future seems to take shape. We ask questions, we seek answers as if
bugprophecy, the desire to intuition, would be deeply planted somewhere in our
background.
Human beings seem to have been programmed to seek happiness. With the
development of our technologies, our lives have entered into another. We certainly
live infinitely more comfortably than a century ago, that we have access to several
sources of entertainment, that we can move more easily by living a social, cultural,
technological evolution, etc. Are we happier than those of the last century? I
evolved? Is the direction we go in is a good one? There are questions that only
superficial people can answer with yes or no. For others, any of these questions is
a starting point for other dilemmas.
E difficult to understand how a normal man would interact with such a society.
Huxley is doing it magistral by introducing him into action "Mr. Wild," a child born of
a woman left by mistake in the wild (a natural reserve in South America, a place
where tribes were allowed to live after the old and outdated paradigm). An eclectic
savage that does not belong to either the old world or the new world, the prototype
of today's modern man who is part of a transition civilization, being connected to
tradition in a superficial form but also not at the end of the evolution of history.
This Wild Learned to read from an old book of some Sheakspeare, which makes
him the greatest gift of the old world, the opportunity to express the deep and
ontological feelings of the soul, long lost in the new world, because feelings no
longer have no value. This Sheakspeare, unknown to anyone and the Indians
among whom he grew up, is the only link to the ancestral past. Although the
Wildwoman awakens a lively interest in "civilized society," it is nevertheless
regarded as a remnant of something unknown and long lost, but as an alien
absolutely alien to the modern world that brings about the consequences that
follow. The attempt to self-isolate the Wild is just an attempt to escape the new
reality in which it exists, but its inadequacy in the world in which it lives is punished.
Not by an almighty force, not by public morality, but by his own unwillingness to
conform to the world around him, incompatibility with the condition of "happy slave"
(O. Hurduzeu). The savage is that "last man" (Fukuyama) in a dehumanized world.
"There will be a pharmacological method in the next generation or not very far away to
make people love their bondage, creating dictatorships without tears, so to speak, and
producing some kind of concentration camps for whole societies, so people will be given
their freedoms, but they will love it because they will be distracted from any desire to
propagate or brainwash, or by brainwashing improved by pharmacological methods. And
this seems to be the last revolution." -(Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California
Medical Scool, 1961)