Summary Of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

“Twenty-seven years later, in this third quarter of the twentieth century A.D., and long before the end of the first century A.F., I feel a good deal less optimistic than I did when I was writing Brave New World. The prophecies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would.” Resting anxiously and awaiting the Final Revolution in his psychedelic afterlife, Aldous Huxley still echos an invaluable wisdom to the generations of today and the future. The prophecies he made in Brave New World, written in 1931, are some of the most compelling ever made through the medium of fictional prose narrative. The previous pessimistic postulation though was not made in his opus, but rather it is from Huxley 's non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, written in 1958, in which he concluded

Mond and his compatriots and predecessors must forge and maintain this social paradigm through careful conditioning in order to produce an efficient community of consistently wanton consumers. “The current Social Ethic, it is obvious, is merely a justification after the fact of the less desirable conse¬quences of over-organization.” Here, in Revisited, Huxley posits that in fact, the social ethics of such a World State-like society exist only to validate and vindicate the manner in which the would-be-individuals are forced to conform into their assigned roles. Huxley goes on to state, though, that it must be understood that the social organism, or rather “organization,” is an inorganic tool of society and the members of it, something that has value only so long as its parts-humans-perceive it to. Yet, over half a century later in the year 2014, the modern world has been unable to comprehend this wisdom (Or is it that it is ignorant of it?). The public educators of the day put so much emphasis on “group work” and “community service,” which seems to be an absolute prerequisite for a “higher