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To: ventana
Orwell openly repudiated his past Socialism and wrote " 1984 " and " ANIMAL FARM ", for the distinct reason of warning evryone, especially those who still clung to Marxist / Socialist views , how dreadfully wrong those positions were. He was also very vocal publicly, and denounced his previous works and positions.

Huxley, OTOH, never did anything at all even close to that. His " BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED ", is a polemic on how surprised he was that somethings in BNW were coming true in 1958. They weren't, and as usual, Aldous saw himself as more than he was. Much of this book sounds like a FR Libertarian wrote it ... including all of the Jeffersonian cherrypicked and misused quotes. As a matter of fact, this ultra slim book is made up of more quotes, of others, than actual thoughts of Huxlely's. What you have chosen to quote, of his, is out of context and doesn't fit the whole. You have taken it all out of time, hence it seems more relivant, than it truly was / is , to the scheme of things.

Yes, he is against " big business " ; that was the tacit LIBERAL vent of the day, back then. He also was scared to death of over population ( this stems from his Fabian days, as well as the Liberal hysteria, that was beginning to bubble over )and the fact that " undesireables " were living into adulthood and that there were far too many of them in America. This had nothing whatsoever to do with immigration or illegal aliens. As to " big government ", Ike was president, and this polemic was anti-Republican ; not just a complaint against " big government ". Taking things out of their time context, will make things appear to be that which they weren't. Try reading " HUXLEY IN HOLLYWOOD ", for a better understanding of Aldous and his positions. Then, you should try redaing a few of the massive amount of books about and by the Bloomsbury crowd.

I think that you don't know enough, to make any kind of rational critique on what Huxley was saying and what my posts contain.

209 posted on 11/01/2002 11:28:36 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
I know enough to say that your post contained misspellings and a comma splice! V's wife.
214 posted on 11/02/2002 3:00:45 AM PST by ventana
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To: nopardons
As to the writer, specifically: the exact nature and character, as well as personal beliefs, of an author have always been discussed and debated regarding the relevance of these particulars to the work of art itself. This applies to Chaucer;Shakespeare; Dickens; Shaw;James;Hawthorne;Fitzgerald, etc. Art eclipses the particulars of time and place and an author's conceits and embrace eternal themes, while still revealing aspects of the epoch wherein it was written. But you already knew that, I'm sure. V's wife.
215 posted on 11/02/2002 3:10:03 AM PST by ventana
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