/lit/ - Literature

>create a utopia
>call it a dystopia because some manlet and some mixed mutt don’t belong
What did Huxley mean by this?

>gets to live in a literal utopia
>AHHHHH IM GOING INSA-ACK!
wtf was John's problem?

Of all the dystopian literature out there, this one predicted the future of humanity the most accurately

ITT: Books that will never get the adaptation they deserve

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

>Pleasure bad
>Knowing your place in society bad
>Pain, disease, suffering good

>Pleasure bad because...uhhh...IT JUST IS, OK???

>>20073436
just don't call them jews.
>Bernard Marx: Named after Jewish revolutionary Karl Marx. He has an inferiority complex since he is shorter and thinner than other males. He is very critical of society out of jealousy because he doesn’t feel accepted.
>Morgana Rothschild: Named after Rothschild Jewish banking family
>Polly Trotsky: Named after Jewish revolutionary, Leon Trotsky
>Mustapha Mond: Named after Jewish Zionist Alfred Mond. He is the World Controller for Western Europe (how fitting?). He is very intelligent but uses his knowledge to manipulate people. In Chapter Three, he is desribed as “a man of middle height, black-haired, with a hooked nose, full red lips, eyes very piercing and dark”.

Meanwhile, the noble characters in Huxley’s story are clearly not Jewish:
>Helmholtz Watson: Named after German physicist Herrmann Vonn Helmholtz
>The main character of the story, John “The Savage” was not named after a specific person but symbolizes the traditional idea of a “hero”. He grew up on a Native Reservation in America but didn’t fit in because he was a blonde European. He is chivalrous, disciplined, and intelligent but introverted and feels isolated.
>Huxley’s predictions are fascinating to read from the modern perspective. For example, the word “God” has been replaced with “Freud”, the Jewish psychologist behind the Sexual Revolution.

What is with idiot parents wanting to ban books like Brave New World?! It literally predicted the future. Soma is the internet and everything in it from the drugs and sex being encouraged is what's happening now. Why does this book make Karens seethe?

>Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a labratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
WTF did I just read? Is the whole book like this? This is why I never read fiction, just nonsensical BS.

I am literally Bernard Marx

Why does everyone think he wrote this book as a warning to try to stop it from happening? In reality he was just writing down his plans for the society would be in the future.

If we judge by the standard: "dude that was so prophetic bruh, he literally predicted the [current year] man *smokes doobie*", then pic-related was more accurate than 1984.
Thoughts?

>"But industrial civilization is only possible when there is no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning."

Is this true, /lit/? Does civilization depend on the appetitive masses? Should we be grateful, rather than dismayed, by the fact that most people are hedonic fools, and that we can pursue intellectual interests only through the stability provided through their impulsive consumption?

I loved reading this book. What other good anti-utopian books does /lit/ recommend?

What was the age of consent?

femanon here. i just marathoned this. what did i think to this? post your favourite fiction please.

Why is this a dystopia?

> Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south–south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south west, south-south east, east…

>>15593281
always felt like bnw was more prophetic

Lads and ladies of /lit/, make sure to join our book club!

We will be discussing and sharing various works of literature here, and we've got reading lists for plenty of genres and topics!

Join us here: https://discord.gg/sEFreDx

Tomorrow, on Monday, we will be discussing the first two chapters of Brave New World, and the discussion will be open until Wednesday. Make sure to read up, /lit/!

I just read pic related. Tell me what I thought about it.

>>15245841
>what’s left?
Masturbation machines, literally

Never stop to proclaim, 'til your last breath, that Ted was right.

>legalized State-enforced drug epidemic
>Bernard, one of many Lenina's Onlyfans incel simps
>Occulus Brap kino theaters
>the last free person is a fashy goy who kills himself after Susan Wojcicki's Disney drones locate him and NPCs snap way too many post-ironic tiktok videos of him
Bros, this wasn't supposed to be a non-fiction memoir.