I must say this quite popular book in Slovenia for last couple of years form Aldous Huxley. I must also say that it is very good.
It talks about a new social order of civilization. People are separated in more casts (from Alpha to Epsilon). People from different cast have different capabilities. Let’s tell for start that all people are grown in artificial process in laboratories. Because the new order requires people to do different stuff but they still want all to be happy they determine hw the specific subject will evolve. They are intentionally making some people less developed and mentally inferior. From “birth” on they are teaching different people different stuff so they are prepared for their cast when they grow up.
The story tells us about an untouched part of the world where an old civilization is living. Well they don’t call it civilization really. They are Indians that have preserved their way of living and habits. And here the people are still born the natural way. Some time in past a woman from new world is lost here and over the years she gets a son. Some years later she is brought back to the new world, all old (the people in new world didn’t age by sight) and dirty. She was called whore by the Indians, because she was having more guys just like it was natural in new world. There was no marriage or other bonds in new world. Anybody could have anyone if they were both willing.
The main stuff that keeps the new world running is a drug called “soma”. This is the stuff that keeps people from desperation, anger, strong emotions and other things that would harm the system. And this is also the stuff that makes all people so happy.
Book faces you with a very different order where anyone can find a place for himself. If he can’t than there are many islands for people for his kind.
It talks about a new social order of civilization. People are separated in more casts (from Alpha to Epsilon). People from different cast have different capabilities. Let’s tell for start that all people are grown in artificial process in laboratories. Because the new order requires people to do different stuff but they still want all to be happy they determine hw the specific subject will evolve. They are intentionally making some people less developed and mentally inferior. From “birth” on they are teaching different people different stuff so they are prepared for their cast when they grow up.
The story tells us about an untouched part of the world where an old civilization is living. Well they don’t call it civilization really. They are Indians that have preserved their way of living and habits. And here the people are still born the natural way. Some time in past a woman from new world is lost here and over the years she gets a son. Some years later she is brought back to the new world, all old (the people in new world didn’t age by sight) and dirty. She was called whore by the Indians, because she was having more guys just like it was natural in new world. There was no marriage or other bonds in new world. Anybody could have anyone if they were both willing.
The main stuff that keeps the new world running is a drug called “soma”. This is the stuff that keeps people from desperation, anger, strong emotions and other things that would harm the system. And this is also the stuff that makes all people so happy.
Book faces you with a very different order where anyone can find a place for himself. If he can’t than there are many islands for people for his kind.
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