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oapen-20.500.12657-758532024-03-28T09:31:33Z Chapter 15 Aldous Huxley and the Rebels against Happiness Farrell, John Utopia, Dystopia, Dostoevsky, Huxley, Orwell Huxley’s vision of juvenile happiness kept in place by genetic engineering, compulsory promiscuity, psychological conditioning, drugs, and propaganda has been traditionally read as a warning against the dangers to modern freedom. Huxley would seem, then, to be a strong defender of the heroic protest against utopia. In fact, Huxley believed that most of the measures taken by the World State, including eugenics, would be necessary in some form, and his narrative strongly ironizes the resisters to utopian happiness. Unable to grasp either horn of the utopian dilemma, he produced a lucid and memorable version of it. 2023-08-28T15:01:08Z 2023-08-28T15:01:08Z 2023 chapter 9781032431574 9781032431581 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75853 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003365945_10.4324_9781003365945-16.pdf Taylor & Francis The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination Routledge 10.4324/9781003365945-16 10.4324/9781003365945-16 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb ad5acb7b-34e6-45de-b9e2-bec54e0b68fb 9781032431574 9781032431581 Routledge 15 open access
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Huxley’s vision of juvenile happiness kept in place by genetic engineering, compulsory promiscuity, psychological conditioning, drugs, and propaganda has been traditionally read as a warning against the dangers to modern freedom. Huxley would seem, then, to be a strong defender of the heroic protest against utopia. In fact, Huxley believed that most of the measures taken by the World State, including eugenics, would be necessary in some form, and his narrative strongly ironizes the resisters to utopian happiness. Unable to grasp either horn of the utopian dilemma, he produced a lucid and memorable version of it.
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