Not two hours ago I was going over my sons "summer reading list" (better late then never)with him and I was trying to explain "Brave New World."
Maybe he’d be better off reading
“The Doors of Perception”?
or maybe not.
Such an excellent book. Unlike in Europe, there are unique characteristics of American culture that inoculate us against Orwell’s nightmarish future. But there is nothing to prevent Huxley’s dystopia from coming about here: a society of permanent adolescents, free to engage in whatever pleasures them, untroubled by political freedom or the fear of a life led outside the motherly state.