Brave New World Revisited (Vozvrashchenie v Divny Novy Mir)

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited was first published back in 1958, making it all the more compelling to read today: in this work, the great English writer and philosopher, in his polemical style, drew parallels between Western civilization's bourgeois 'golden age' of the 1950s and the dystopian, totalitarian 'consumer paradise' described in his most famous work of fiction, Brave New World. Again and again, Huxley compared the distant future world he imagined many years ago with the very real world that surrounded him at the time he wrote Brave New World Revisited—and again and again he found signs of frightening, dangerous, and increasingly obvious similarities. Where was he right, and where was he wrong? Which of his predictions failed to come true, and which, alas, came true with sad accuracy? The answers to these questions, oddly enough, are far from obvious...