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Inferiority (Man vs. Man (men and their inferiority to each other), Man vs…
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- Bernard challenging the society
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- all directors of hatcheries are male and while trying to level men and women on the same playing field, that creates an oppressive state of being
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- reproductive inferiority to animals
- The competition of men to be in position of power against each other
- "For Huxley, who was born when Queen Victoria was on the throne, sexual freedom was inevitably going to translate into emotional shallowness. " -NYT
- "In “Brave New World,” the most obscene word, the one that has the power to make people blush and flee the room, is “mother.”" - NYT
- "When we talk about “Brave New World,” we usually have in mind the novel’s vision of a society stratified by scientific means into predestined castes — the handsome, intelligent Alphas lording it over the moronic, undersized Epsilons." - NYT
- “Brave New World” makes the illiberal assumption that giving people more freedom and less authority will degrade them. The challenge the book sets us today is to prove him wrong." - NYT
- "Like so many intellectuals of his time, Huxley feared the advent of “mass man,” of prosperity and conformity and homogenizing media empires." - NYT
- "On one hand, these chemical interventions point to possible inroads to understanding some crucial issues, relating to mental health, for example. But on the other, they warn of the potential of a looming dystopian future." - The Conversation
- "dystopian society that is not controlled by fear, but rendered docile by happiness." The Conversation
- "This kind of propaganda is for mass media consumption, but today’s emotional engineering takes place in far more intimate and contagious arenas of social media.
For example, in 2014, Facebook took part in an experiment designed to make positive and negative emotions go viral. Researchers manipulated the news feeds of over 600,000 users in an attempt to make them pass on positive and negative emotions to others in their network." - The Conversation
- "It is Huxley’s appeal to emotional conditioning that most significantly resonates with today’s dystopian neurocultures. He noted the clear advantages of sidestepping intellectual engagement and instead appealing to emotional suggestibility to guide intentions and subdue nonconformity." - The Conversation
make it a cycle almost -- think of conversation with mr. tourais
how does inferiority lead to more intense inferiority
remove bias and listen to what the book is telling me to do