I've bought the small book called Brave New World by the
Author Aldous Huxley
I've bought the book second for 2 euro and I have to say it was
quite a good investment.
The first time I heard the title was when Iron Maiden's Brave
New World album become popular some few years ago.
Thus I was quite interested to see what has inspired Bruce
Dickinson and the other maiden guys to come with an album title,
what is so much about this book by reading it :)
Well I should say the guys were right the book is really an awesome
piece of modern sci-fi classic.
The Brave
New World book in short is a story about an evaluated
futuristic society, whenever every person is conditioned from his
birth and another very different society which has decided not to
adapt to the new way and keep their old ways.
The book is basicly a story about the clash between the new world
looking only ahead (a world without pain), and the old one full of
pain statitic, brutal but still real.
In that evaluated society, the human mind is conditioned what
things to like and what things to dislike constantly. Whenever
somebody experiences even the slightest unconfortable feeling,
there is always soma a magical mood fix up drug to work it
out.
In that society, marriege is prohibited and children are born in a
test-tubes in the laboratories.
In that modern world people does travel only through an air
transport and woman constantly change their male partner, basicly
acting like whores.
Out of this fake society, the old society which decided not to go
the new fake ways of living exists, there in are Indians,
Christians, and all type of people who has decided not to have
their children born in a test-tube or for some reason has failed to
integrate to the highly technologic new society
The book story progresses as one of the persons part of the World
State develops a sort of vague hatred for his society and wants to
see the old type of living, e.g. go out on a vacation in a place
where still "savages" as they call them live.
He mets there an fat ugly woman whom fore some reason has been
abandoned to the old world, because during her vacation she got
pregnant and was in violation of the norms of the new society and
therefore was banned of the "brave new world" society.
As the story progresses she and her is brought again to the World
State society. Her son however cannot really integrate into this
society since he has a different mindset of all of them and has a
strong sense for right and wrong.
At a certain point "The Savage" as the son is called develops a
completely hatred for this modernistic society and does violate the
World State's rules and gots captured by the World State
police.
He consequently got cast out of the futuristic society and starts
living a hermit like life in a lighthouse nearby the sea.
Because of the Savage unusual behaviour he attracts the
attention of the local World State inhabitants and his type of
living enters the newspapers.
The Savage gots really popular and at a certain point, many many of
the local World State inhabitants comes to see him personally, even
Lenina (the lady he is in love with).
Seeing Lenina around is too much for John and he attacks her with
his whip. People got excited and follow their conditioning getting
into a huge combination of soma and sex (an orgy).
On the morning John wakes up and remembers that he has used the
soma and participated into the Orgy horrified alone and hopeless as
well as tormented by the painful memories he makes his last attempt
to escape civillization.
When however thousand of gawking sightseers arrive in the morning
to see John whipping himself, they found him dead hanging by the
neck.
I'll close this post with Iron Maiden's Brave New World song as it
was inspired quite a lot by the Brave New World book.