Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at the Society itself” (148).

fools are important.

creators of the unorthodox.

i hope this inspires waves of chaos creating ideas,

sparks in a barrel of oily rags

i could explain it here but lets face it you aren't going to understand from a single explanation:

he was likely talking about (even if he consciously knew it or not) literally aspects of an 'old Empire' of which this is a 'imperfect prop copy' of.

humans will not get much further along that path, just simply because humans do not control any of the area around the planet so simply any such 'empire' will just be a 'prop'.

those simple restriction will 'force' a result one way or another.

It is my belief (but i don't know) that Huxley was seeing a pretty accurate image of an Empire that humans will at best copy badly before a major change.

I really hate when people compare everything in today's society with Brave New World and say it's bad. Remember that not everything in Huxley's book was bad! The idea of everyone belong to everyone is how humanity was during our pre-history and is what makes the polyamorus movement take off today.

His world was removed from conflict, at the expensive of creativity and development. But removing jealously isn't a bad thing. His world had trade-offs. The savages were equally backwards; back in an older era with its own faults. The two worlds had various trade-offs to make their societies work and saw each other as terrible.

In Huxley's world, people who saw past this weren't killed. They were allowed to go somewhere where those ideas could develop and contribute in a way others couldn't. The rest of the world was locked into the way they were moulded; in a much more extreme version than what capitalism and adverts do today.

Kind of similar to that whole "you can kill a person but you can't kill an ideology" thing.

Huxley wrote another book later in his life in which he talked about how society as he's seen has advanced towards what he described in BNW faster than he ever anticipated.

This is a terrifying book if you haven't read it before. It's gonna depress the ever living fuck out of you. But, in all fairness, every generation has been able to draw from its message. We're just, you know, closer to it than they were.

one of my 5 all time favorite books

Truly amazing book. I love how it talks about making the people so happy that they are too distracted to make any noticeable impact on the world.