I’m so glad I’m a Beta….Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. Humans are graded from Alpha to Epsilon, and everyone’s happy to be the grade they are, due to successful brain washing. They are grown in vitro, raised in specialist nurseries and they are both “natured and nurtured” to fit into their place in society and the work they do. Huxley’s Brave New World is a faux-Utopia (The World State) where the populace is controlled. I first read this book at least 35 years ago and at the time it was very much “science fiction” but Huxley was well ahead of his time He took the hints of his own world (this was written in 1932) such as recreational drugs, sexual freedoms and mass manufacturing and did what good spec-fic writers do – pushed them into the future and imagined what the consequences of them would be. How many goodly creatures are there here! Publication Info: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1998
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