Uljas uusi maailma

Dystopia, Novel by Aldous Huxley, Fred Fordham

Blurb

Uljas uusi maailma on Aldous Huxleyn vuonna 1932 julkaistu tieteisromaani. Se on George Orwellin romaanin Vuonna 1984 ohella yksi 1900-luvun merkittävimpiä tulevaisuusfiktioita. Se ennusti pyrkimyksen luoda parempi maailma muokkaamalla ihmisistä täydellisempiä. Uljas uusi maailma sai vaikutteita muun muassa filosofi Bertrand Russellin vuotta aiemmin julkaisemasta kirjasta The Scientific Outlook.
Huxleyn maailma kuvaa dystopiaa noin viisisataa vuotta meidän ajastamme eteenpäin. Hänen maailmansa on totalitaristinen yhtenäisvaltio, jossa ihmisen tuotteistaminen on viety loogiseen loppuunsa saakka. Hänen luomassaan maailmassa lapset syntyvät tuotantolaitoksissa, joissa soveliaimpia yksilöitä tuotetaan useita kappaleita tarkoin valvotuissa olosuhteissa. Ihmisten kohtalo on ennalta määrätty sen mukaan, mihin tuotantosarjaan hän sattuu kuulumaan; tuotteistetut ihmiset jaetaan alfoihin, beetoihin, gammoihin, deltoihin ja epsiloneihin. Kulttuuri on täysin latistettu; taide ja korkeakulttuuri on hävitetty ja historia muistomerkkeineen pyyhitty pois ihmisten mielistä.

First Published

1932

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Aleksandra.marinkovic

Just keep in mind throughout the book that it was written in 1931. You will be devastated every time you remember that.

0 Responses posted in December

Sofiia

first of all, i am very happy that i purchased an edition with a beautiful introduction of yuval noah harari. „the climatic dialogue between mustapha mond and john the savage is among the most profound discussions of technology, happiness and the meaning of life in modern western philosophy.“ i followed his advice and as i reached this dialogue, in other words the culmination, i could clearly see how society destroyed a moral in order to reach an eternal comfort. we are striving for a society which would have no trouble in living, no choice and no problems, but if no bad side exists will we continue to stay human? because we are the creatures, for whom it’s natural to make mistakes, to fight for something. and as we see in this book, pressing a natural „bad“ side of human turns them into a vegetable (nice phrase which use to describe people during totalitarian regime in ukraine) and completely erases a personality. „you got rid of them. yes, that’s just like you. getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… but you don’t do either. neither suffer nor oppose. you just abolish the slings and arrows. it’s too easy.“ and further consequences, which we can see is a disappearance of all forms of art because what? right, because the point of art is highlighting problems in society and a person in an aesthetically pleasing way. and as an example there was a shakespeare and a bible, which was considered to be „a pornographic literature“. but of course we need no problems. but still we will continue „to advance“ to a flawless society, a brave new world. at this point, we will have to try also to save a morality, cherish culture and literature and don’t reject our natural human side.

0 Responses posted in August