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Aldous Huxley and Satire

Aldous Huxley and Satire. Brave New World. “Not only work, but leisure has been completely mechanized…”. “[w]ith every fresh elaboration of the social organization, the individual finds himself yet further degraded from manhood towards…social function…”.

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Aldous Huxley and Satire

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  1. Aldous Huxley and Satire Brave New World

  2. “Not only work, but leisure has been completely mechanized…”

  3. “[w]ith every fresh elaboration of the social organization, the individual finds himself yet further degraded from manhood towards…social function…”

  4. “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.”

  5. “ready-made, creation-saving amusements are spreading an ever intenser boredom through ever wider spheres….”

  6. “The sciences…[can] destroy life or make the living of it impossibly complex and uncomfortable.”

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