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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 10 Nov 2013

    Brave New World is overrated: Huxley had contempt for the masses, overestimated the malleability of human nature -http://nyti.ms/1aMI1o9 

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      2. Richard Harper‏ @harpersnotes 10 Nov 2013
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker BNW is a satire. Satires often confuse critics, especially those writing 8 decades later. It's about Mussolini, Henry Ford, etc.

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      3. Doug Janack‏ @DougJanack 10 Nov 2013
        Replying to @harpersnotes

        @harpersnotes @sapinker I agree. That critic has misread BNW as a failed prophecy rather than a satire of social trends in Huxley's own time

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      1. Rob‏ @Son_of_Roark 24 Nov 2013
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        BTW, Huxley had contempt for the masses? Good thing he's dead, he'd be apoplectic @sapinker @FriedrichHayek

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      1. arclight‏ @arclight 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker IIRC, "Brave New World" was a response to H. G. Wells' "The World Set Free", exploring the transformative nature of nuclear power

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      1. Doug Janack‏ @DougJanack 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker Just thinking, I can see why someone accused of scientism might not like a satirical novel about scientism running amok.

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      1. Doug Janack‏ @DougJanack 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker Huxley had blind spots, e.g. portrayal of women seems sexist. But BNW was prescient in some ways, e.g. Postman on mass media.

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      1. Arronski‏ @Arronski 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker The sex thing is outright wrong. The divorce rate has climbed and impoverished single-mother households becoming preeminent.

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      1. Jens Knocke‏ @JensKnocke 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker So true. Still, he's quite amusing.

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      1. Billy O'Neal‏ @MalwareMinigun 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker @klmr Agreed. If one is looking for distopia, Orwell's 1984 is far more realistic/likely.

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      1. Martin Davidson‏ @mpeterdavidson 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker All dystopias premised on loathing of the masses, as are most Utopias. Both skew towards Fascism.

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      1. Chew jo‏ @ChewbaccaJ 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker @evilb1000 human nature is the constant-the malleable part is society, more dated than overrated...my opinion but I laugh at farts

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      1. HastingsHumanists‏ @HastingsHumanis 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker Aldous Huxley's book on The Perennial Philosophy is more representative of his mystical world-view.

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      1. Alex Forrest-Hay‏ @aforre 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker I would say Huxley was unerringly accurate and actually underestimated the malleability of human nature!

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      2. Peter Lockhart‏ @ThPeterLockhart 10 Nov 2013
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        @sapinker Still very interesting though. A lot of food for thought in that book. Like 1984. The homeless are "Unpersons".

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      3. Doug Janack‏ @DougJanack 10 Nov 2013
        Replying to @ThPeterLockhart

        @ThPeterLockhart @sapinker I agree. Brave New World and 1984 should be read together for their contrasting visions of dystopian risks.

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