Brave New World | Chapter 17 Summary & Analysis | Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is about a dystopian world 500 years in the future. All of humanity is controlled by an authoritarian regime that uses genetic engineering, pharmaceuticals, global social conditioning, oppressive thought control, propaganda, and more to keep people in line. The stability this produces carries a terrible cost in human individuality and happiness. However, despite the best efforts of the world state, the book's protagonists discover that human discontent cannot be stifled completely.

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Error: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James, NOT his son, Henry James.

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brave new world is actually a good world since were already conditioned to be what we are because of genetics. Only difference is that we have less happiness