/lit/ - Literature

>>11285109

The ultimate hubris at the heart of the anthropocentric myth of creation, that man was not only made in the image of divinity AND achieved the vision of divinity (knowledge of good and evil), it is also identifiable with divinity itself from in its conception. In short, we can/are able to be gods or at least become one with God, even are destined to. This shit is why we can't have nice things

>>11172974

>Remove incels
>A Dark Age begins in tech
>Why are our independent black women not building quantum computers?

>>11111854

It is kind of amusing how that girl has an apparently large waist but lies on the smaller side of the tits spectrum

>>10689916
>>10693384

I'd like to add, in response to most answers in here, that this (that world being a dystopia) has nothing at all to do with freedom to suffer vs enforced hedonism. Soma-induced and sex-induced pleasure are used as tools for control merely because they are the most efficient Huxley could think of (and probably the most efficient in fact), but change everything into people being forced into obedience in more traditional ways (like most cyberpunk dictatorships that rip off Huxley), and none of the dystopian elements are even modified (i.e society is still insular to disruption and mobility is non-existent).

Such a society being undesirable also has less to do with its Human Development Index and more to do with its viability in long term. Both BNW and traditional "obviously nasty" dystopias would realistically be absorbed/destroyed by interaction with external elements, be it nature itself or other societies with different political schemes. You can't be Cuba for too long if you want Cuba to be part of the world, likewise for North Korea, and likewise for Huxley's imagined world. The trope here is not "freedom is above all" but rather "it is impossible not to change".