/lit/ - Literature

>the BBC rape porn scene
what the fuck, why didn’t any of you tell me about this? Just broke a nofap streak of 54 days thanks to this. I’m never reading again.

Why did the Savage have such an incel rage towards Lenina? He's pretty much some kind of proto-chud.

Aldous Huxley predicted modernity:
>people taking drugs to distract themselves from a shitty existence ("soma" in the book, antidepressants in real life)
>people watching shitty, emotionally manipulative media to placate themselves ("feelies" in the book, TV and movies in real life)
>people indulging in sexual gratification, again to distract themselves from a dystopian reality ("orgy porgy" in the book, porn in real life)

Did any other pre-1960 novel predict the modern world as well as Huxley did?

>humanity created an utopian society which actually works
>people are bio-engineered to be fulfill their societal roles and be happy while doing it
>there's a drug like alcohol but with zero side effects
>if they deem you as unfit for the society from a political standpoint, the only punishment you recieve is getting sent to an island with other like-minded individuals living there where you can also live a happy life
>muh shakespeare muh poetry!
>a guy who was raised in an indian reservation didn't like it there because he was bullied and he wanted to see the civilized world, but he didn't like the new world either so he hanged himself because he wasn't genetically predisposed for living in both of the worlds
How is this book anti-utopian?

Just finished pic related. I am 100% convinced the future depicted here is better than what we're heading towards.

So uhh… how is this a dystopia again?

Lmao, half of this book is about a blond cuck seething about his mom getting BBC’d by a tribal negro

>Pleasure and sex and drugs is le bad and shiet

>highly advanced society
>high standard of living
>the overwhelming of majority of society is happy, healthy, employed, and productive
>most common sources of enmity and anomie have been expunged
>economic and political systems run like clockwork
>only characters who have an issue with this are clinically insane and just want to suffer for the sake of suffering

Why is this a dystopia? The World State is both utopian and morally obligatory.

why are bongs so philosophically unremarkable?

what are some other conservative books I should check out?

>casual sex bad

What are good books that criticize hedonism?

PLEASURE AND ENTERTAINMENT BAD!

It's almost like dystopian lit is trash or something.

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What is /lit/’s take on this book?

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I understand it's not exactly a hard read but given how many top 10/top 20 lists you find it in, I at least thought it would be similar to 1984.
1984 seems to be the one piece of dystopian fiction that's been written with care. Fahrenheit and pic related almost feel as if they ride it's coat-tails. They say nothing new and don't repeat anything better.

>Even le based trad jungle boy couldn't handle going without pleasure
What hope is there for the rest of us?

it's funny how who say this universe isn't so bad automatically thinks they're going to one of the higher class

as a guy from a shitty poor household this doesn't seem that bad

Why didn't John just have sex?

How much of a pseud am I if it seems to me like we are moving towards a Brave New World society?

WTF was John's problem...like dude just take the SOMA lmao....

What does /lit/ think of BNW? What do you think about Huxley's predictions of the future, now our daily lived experience? What do you think of chapter 18's dialogue between John and Mustapha?