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Brave new world sparknotes11/10/2023 ![]() Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End, the unitive knowledge of immanent Tao or Logos, the transcendent Godhead or Brahman. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man, not (as at present and still more so in the Brave New World) as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them. In this community economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and co-operative. Between the Utopian and primitive horns of his dilemma would lie the possibility of sanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative. The ideas that would become Island can be seen in a foreword he wrote in 1946 to a new edition of Brave New World: Island is Huxley's utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension. ![]() Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. ![]()
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