brave-new-world-with-the-essay
Huxley's dystopia of engineered contentment through genetic conditioning, soma, and consumerism, paired with his later revisiting essay.
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For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. — location: 60 ^ref-51678
“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead. — location: 183 ^ref-13054
“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” — location: 218 ^ref-46782
“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.” “Silence, silence,” whispered a — location: 345 ^ref-18347
“Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.” — location: 2877 ^ref-13829
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