That is a splendidly-written comparison of Huxley’s vision with our present-day world. I don’t know Kyle Smith, but I will keep an eye out for him now. Huxley’s book is extraordinarily prescient, and Smith relates these parallels convincingly.
He’s a conservative movie critic for ny post http://kylesmithonline.com/
“I will keep an eye out for [Smith] now.”
He’s pretty good, this was a very interesting article. I don’t really think he’s right about the “classics” and publishing, I’ve heard that publishers love that copyright free material. But it could be changing as ebooks advance.
I read BNW years ago and didn’t like it very much. I thought it very inferior to 1984 which I found absolutely harrowing. When I finished 1984 I thought “well, I’m really glad I read this and neither a million dollars nor a gun to my head will every get me to read it again”.
Maybe I should read BNW again, it does seem to be coming true, I often think of those test-tube babies!
omg what are you kyle's mom pretending not to be?
It was readable, but "splendid?" Chesterton was "splendid." This is 8th grade essay stuff.