The World Of Tomorrow (According to Aldous Huxley)...

Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" was published in 1932. Most people call it a dystopian view of the future. I think it is pretty positive, actually. I have only seen one movie of it, although I am familiar with the story and concept. Remember it is just one man's view of what the future holds. What follows are some quotes from the book:

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.”

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

 

people believe things (in the absence of confirming evidence) because their egos refuse to honestly accept the reality that things can exist without its knowledge.
this is a point that huxly, along with a majority of people both wise and otherwise seem to not quite get.
nor is this an inherent proclivity of the species. that claim is principally hierarchic propaganda, especially by and for brand name flavors of belief, but also other forms of hierarchy as well.

if anything, it is indeed our mythologies that give birth to our headaches, that part he got right.
things we don't know, can exist just fine without them too.
and that includes gods owing nothing to any of our popular beliefs.

no offense to his capacities or perspectives, but i found his writing style uninviting.
(or so i seem to recall, though its been decades since i last attempted reading it)

obviously i have my own ideas as to what constitute utopias dystopias.
utopias are when the dominance of aggressiveness is prevented.
tyranny is the dominance of aggressiveness, regardless of ideologies, beliefs, forms of economics, governance, or any thing else.

 

phillip k dick wrote a lot about the all consuming need for status and how relative it was. in the future owning for instance a sheep robot was something a person dreamed about (electric sheep). the status of ownership was more important than actually living, to reduce a ton of thought into one simple one