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JKCalhountoday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

No spoilers, but I've come to think that "Brave New World" actually is Utopian—in the "give people what they want" department.


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customguytoday at 7:49 PM

But they get conditioned to want to be cogs. At any rate, Huxley certainly did not intend it as utopian: https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

About his ideas for utopia he wrote "Island": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)

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