I.e. in BNW our heroes are Alpha-Pluses yelling at a Beta abt how dumb she is and the Deltas/Epsilons never come onstage @damiengwalter
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I'd like BNW more if I felt more strongly that its readers were aware they, personally, are probably Bernard
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Bernard is the prototypical angry 25-year-old "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" guy who really mostly probably just wants to get laid
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I also feel like a lot of people who really liked BNW didn't get what Huxley was going for with the character of John the Savage
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That John's worldview is just as arbitrary/dumb as the worldview created by the BNW, except theirs is optimized for survival and his isn't
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John being really into religion and Shakespeare and old-school cultural gender norms and shit, all stuff Huxley wasn't a fan of
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Every dystopia has to at least sort of gesture toward "Ok what do you really actually want" and Huxley tried to do that with Island
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I read that a really long time ago and what I mainly remember about it is it was pretty unsatisfying
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Huxley operating on the principle of some kind of actual cosmic Truth you get from LSD trips that's more True than Bentham utilitarianism
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Orwell was a materialist, his dystopia was about people suffering from actual poverty, which carries more urgency than "spiritual poverty"
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