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I wanted to philosophise about A Brave New World but I don't know it hasn't all sunk in yet. Reading a book like that in three and a half hours your brain needs time to process it all.
Some things that stuck out most for me:
-In a world where happiness is the only thought in the people's mind, people become very self centred. All the times Lenina was out with a guy and he was distant her first thought was that she was getting fat or that he wasn't attracted to her. Isn't that so like today? You're out with your friends and if you're down they assume you're mad at THEM. Everything is so "me me me" centred.
-Look at our world, what is the foremost thing on people's mind? Satisfaction. Commercials for everything promise satisfaction. "try this razor and you'll find paradise" (irony), "this weight loss pill will make you happier than you've ever been" etc. Can anyone else see where we're headed here? I'm not saying NOT to seek satisfaction but we're looking for it in all the wrong places. And everything is requiring less and less brainpower (such as our movies, mindless). Our world is becoming so devoid of thought or anything aside from "me me me how can I feel happy..." The only thing we're missing is a controlling force bent on seeing to our every demand so that we don't have to feel one ounce of anything but bliss.
I found happiness in love, and this happiness is something no drug or no amount of casual sex could vanquish. Unconventional and "weird" love perhaps but it is there all the same.
-Girls like being looked at like meat (just like in the book). If a (good looking) guy checks out a girl she is flattered. Why? WHY is that flattering? Do you like being viewed as an object, a piece of meat, a thing made for the pleasure of men. Girls LOVE to flaunt it for the guys because they want that one moment because we're being conditioned to look good for them.
so horribly prophetic. Granted I don't see our government getting too bent out of shape about making everyone "happy" and free (granted they probably want just the opposite, CHASTITY BELTS FOR EVERYONE). I do see the social norm headed that way if we're not already there.
"me me me what will be that little thing to make me happy? Pills? sex? being eyed by a guy? Me me me fill my senses make my day me me me"
I'm not saying pleasure is bad, it's natural but SO. IS. PAIN.
A world without pain is not worth living in. Without pain who can understand art. When John was talking about Shakespeare to some of the people they didn't get it. What was a tragedy to them?
A world without pain sounds happy and wonderful and yes sometimes I wish I felt no pain but.... what existance would that be?
Something I got from the book that perhaps the author didn't intentionally put in there, a place like heaven would be so horrific. No pain? Pain creates art. Tragedy creates beauty. I fall in love with the ones that have sad eyes because pain is beauty. If there was no pain, beauty would die.
Yes if either existed and I had to choose I'd choose hell.
/fin
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