Reflections on Huxley

Brave New World is a cautionary tale, not a Users Manual

Aldous Huxley was not merely prophetic—he was a heretic screaming into the vacuum of humanity's narcissistic stupor. While Orwell raged against the surface horrors of jackboots and tyranny, Huxley calmly, acidly predicted that we would hand over our autonomy not at gunpoint, but in exchange for numbing convenience, synthetic pleasure, and the sweet noth…