Video SparkNotes: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World summary
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I read this at the age of 17. Didn’t really know what I was reading . 50 yrs later, I’m watching the introduction live.
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im reading it for english at the age of 15 and i hate it
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I’m 17 and just finished reading it, I understood most of it but it’s a boring book to me, it’s too slow
As I understood it, you missed an important detail in the end. Lenina shows up with the crowd, and John attacks her with the whip, then starts whipping himself. The crowd joins in chanting "orgy-porgy" (the most meaningful "poetry" they can understand) and joins in. It turns into an orgy and John takes soma and joins in, presumably with Lenina. He wakes up later in the grass, and then he remembers. The morning after they find him hanging.
I wish John had had more beautiful moments with Lenina before it all fell apart though, it would have made the ending more impactful.
Yeah exactly what I thought, they censored one of the most important parts of the book to the point the ending doesn't even make sense in this version. I don't recall that it's clear that it is Lenina, just that it's probably her or at least John believes it is her.
That's why you shouldn't join in
Now this makes sense, thank you
wow really?
Give the people bread and circuses, and they will never revolt. Caligula.
panem et circenses. Juvenal
I like bread.
So basically.... EVERYTHING what they're getting now huh? 🤨
Caligula you dog. Don't give them ideas
Clever.
What's ungodly in that
How Huxley created the 3 main characters with all having different inner struggle is an eye-opener. Bernard is constantly struggling to fit in with the society and at the same time trying to be an independent soul. Helmholtz is constantly trying to be an independent soul but not having the right friends nor ability to share his thoughts thus making him feel lost and also a social outcast (that is until he met John). While John is an outsider who is trying to make sense of what's happening around his new surrounding since his new surrounding was eerily out of tune with the natural order of the human condition because humans there were not nurtured but rather manufactured.
Bernard and Helmholtz also represent opposite motivations despite being common souls in their dissatisfaction. Bernard is focused on shallow, materialistic desires like sex and popularity while Helmholtz wants intellectual stimulation. A true masterpiece of a novel.
Also (and from my point of view), Lenina had a (somewhat) good inner struggle too. She had opportunities to realize that the society was weird, but she ignored it. She ignored everything and kept on, just like taught. The little moments of doubt were wonderful, as she cleanly refuted them, because she _could just have_ but she didn't.
Fax
Hollywood will never make this into a movie. It's too much about them.
@@runciternaki7183 yeah but those werent very good portrayals
@@nickyvee4607 - just, no one has tried "pure socialism" yet. We don't need movies, we have too many already. We have the longest running stage-play in the history of the world, right outside our doors...
both the movie versions of this book sucked, they obvously coluldn't go into the same depth as the book and show stuff like the orgies, so of course it wasn't going to be cool. bu t 1984 movie was so much better and it summed up the book well. Brazil too, but that movie just wasn't as good as everyone builds it up to be. but better than BNW movies
Ridley Scott was going to make this a movie around 2009 but it's been on the back burner.
@@lvmike424 he's too busy fucking up his Alien franchise
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
I would shift my priorities. Or, conversely, I could find a way to get comfortable with the fact that the best I would ever be able to hope for would be 3 out of six. I'm afraid that would require something akin to a soma-drip. Or maybe a really reliable source of morphine. On second thought, I'm in. Long-live god, freedom, and goodness.
God is a coping mechanism.. A drug, for those who have sufficiently immersed themselves in religion, that can be taken at anytime, to provide comfort and mental stability.
Reasonable Speculation I have a question for you. How can you be considered mentally stable or even remotely balanced when you willingly live in a self-constructed, cranium-sized universe that originated in someone else’s imagination?
Reasonable Speculation In my experience, Our minds collectively create reality. Without a consciousness to perceive something, how can it be said that said something really exists? The assumption that there is an objective, material, concrete reality outside our mere perceptions at all is just that, an assumption.
On the topic of god(s) we are also products of evolution. And all human cultures developed religion in one form or another. Every single one of them. This to me is evidence that religion is either true, has an evolutionary advantage, or both.
I can’t speak empirically, as all I have is my own experience, but religions and myths to me all seem to be telling the same basic story. That story being that:
1: The universe was and is chaos.
2: Order arose out of that chaos, usually by the will of a force that’s “above” us, but sometimes the order is spontaneous.
3: Said force/primordial order guided the creation of humanity using the chaotic material of the universe, but also instilling its own order within us, giving us a dualistic nature.
4: This step is optional, but most religions have it; the purpose of human life is to balance the chaos and order within us.
This core/central theme all faiths seems to have has a lot of wisdom and insight if you read into it more deeply. Therefore, we should never dismiss myths as “just myths”. They developed slowly over countless eons and contain a lot of wisdom that we would be naive to write off as a mere cognitive system humans use to push back against existential terror.
The Night Watcher .. The formation of the current representation of the Known Universe is well understood. Everything can be explained by naturalistic causes.
The configuration of the cosmos before the Planck Era is unknown.
I could make up a "myth" but it would explain nothing.
Genetic mutation and non-random natural selection is also understood, and explains the diversity of life.. The specific point and type of abiogenesis is unknown, but multiple possibilities have been explored.
Religion is an appeal to supernatural phenomena.
Gods, demons, angels, Nephilim, talking snakes and so on are made up stories... People love stories and want answers.
There is no evidence that a supernatural realm exists anywhere but in our imagination.
When our star(the Sun) completes its cycle of expansion and death, humans along with all life in the solar System will die.
The Universe will still exist.
Would you rather the freedom of the ocean, or safety of a fishbowl?
When a fishbowl is of size of a planet - safety it is
The irony is, we actually live in a giant fish bowl and no one knows it.
Liam Converse elaborate please.
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Liam Converse-
Oh, *please.....* 🤣👎🏼
Blows my mind to be living thru the same things we were warned about over and over . Society believes people who lied to us over and over . Seems like we never learn .
If we don't learn from this it's over for you and us wake up call for all of us
The truth is, the deceiver has power, even when ears are opened but the eyes are shut because of FEAR implemented on us for centuries. We cant only be woken up to these things, but have to stand up against it as well, to set an example for the generations to come and let the TRUTH BE REVEALED AND SPEAK FOR ITSELF.
what if we r programmed that way and can't break free
There's an endless climb to the top of a great tower where the truth is, where the plans were drawn up a long time ago, and where the system that orchestrates our lives continously checks and corrects itself to maintain its ultimate goal.
A person, a group, or something else is in that tower and people will live their entire lives never knowing that the world that thought they had created for themselves, was created for them.
Life imitates art and one story that explains the lives we lead is that of the Matrix. A world completely controlled and patterned to make us think that we "feel".
The propaganda of the media and mass advertisement along with the rapid and extreme advances in technology have made us all slaves, except, we just don't know it. We believe the media. We love the ads. Most of all, we are largely dependent upon technology, we have created and continue to improve that which enslaves us.
Yes, welcome to The Matrix.
And its the weak people who are useful idiots to them.
1984 or brave new world, I don't know which is more Hell. Be controlled by what hurts us or by what pleasures us?
That's a concise and elucidating comparison.
1984 is objectively worse.
I think we're gonna get a mix of the two those that deny pleasure will be reprogrammed to love it which is easier then torture
1984 is hell. BNW is heaven.
Obviously 1984 is worse. Pain is worse than pleasure, all other things being equal
We are heading more towards *Brave New World* rather than *1984*
Not sure wich is worse, I read some of the comment´s above discussing both book´s, and to be honest, im somewhat glad, not in the good way of course...
just what I was thinking
Well, you wrote this a month ago, before this week's Trump's actions. Maybe you changed your mind.
we really have a combination of both
It's much bigger than Trump and we've been creeping along that path for a long time. Huxley wrote this in 1932.
This book is honestly a staple everyone should read. It thought-provoking, thrilling and super easy to read. I'm 24 and I just read it for the first time, recommended by a colleague. It's brilliant.
I totally agree, get everyone to read it, hopefully it will prevent it happening.
I'm 40 and just now reading this lol. I Should have read it when I was 15 or 16.
This book is powerful. It's so sad to see the imagined horrors of this book actually happening
@billiondollardan Sad??? Angry !!!
Where are all the orgys?
I don't find it inspiring or thought-provoking for me. Just silly.
@@KimberlyLetsGo I agree I thought it would be better with all the hype
i can feel johns struggles tbh. i'd like to find a women who doesn't life for self indulgence but it's kinda hard to do in america when everyone is always plugged in and seeking comfort.
Both Orwell and Huxley describe what has occurred in todays world, only the truth lays somewhere between 1984 and Brave New World.
Reality is a neatly woven tapestry of the two, with a "killer drones" chapter coming soon.
No other way to exterminate rural folks who hide.
@@michaelhull1813 Obama did drone killings lots far as I've heard. Someone must have his hit list.
@@TranscendianIntendor Drone strikes in Afghanistan were controlled by RAF and USAF staff from bases in England! It's not too much of a stretch to imagine them being used against civilians in western towns and cities.
@@thewomble1509 Trump has all the power that Obama had. Obama did even set precedent when assassinating American citizen. No doubt as he incites Civil War what side he would be on and who would be his targets. We are left wondering if the Militaries we look to to defense will obey the Constitution or the criminal that is Trump.
@@TranscendianIntendor Do you think Civil war is trump's aim for America?
What if...what if the internet is Soma?
Well, on the internet you can have a filter of happy things you want to see and avoid the bad ones.
What if...anti-depressants are soma?
weed is soma
Your not the first person to wonder this. While it isn't quite somma, it might be "spectacle," something so distracting that it has the same effect, to numb us to societies ill's. A man named Guy Debord wrote a book called The Society of the Spectacle about it and said that pop culture has basicly worked like our somma since about the 1920's.
From how I understand it to be, Soma is the form of a perfected Xanax. The dream like state and general uncaring of one's own surroundings leads people to believe they are in a blissful state of pure euphoria.
Before reading this book: I don’t want to go hiking it’s a waste of time.
After reading this book: omg I love nature cause it makes me feel free.
My take from this book is that suffering pointlessly is meaningless (the misery of a savage life), but so is a life lived without suffering (the mindless infantile pleasures of utopia). Therefore, the only meaningful suffering is suffering to a personal apotheosis. The closest character to this type of life, is Mustopha Monde, who chose a path he found meaningful, despite its limitations... not quite an apotheosis, but close enough for him to survive mentally. Plus, he gets to be in charge and use his intelligence to some (mostly pointless) end, that offers certain entertainment and benefits from time to time. He got as high as he could go in his society. The others don't know there's a problem with civility, know there is a problem and are unable to surmount it, or refuse to participate. The great thing about apotheosis (man becoming more like God) is that your demonstration (through meaningful suffering) of freedom and truth is entirely yours, and no one can say peep that you are doing it wrong. You have to do what you have to do for your own sanity.
Growing up, I feared "Brave New World" more than "1984". The idea that you could rip the soul out of humanity and have no one miss it was horrifying. Even worse was my friends who would run into this dystopia because "1984" was unacceptable.
After fighting for years, I have simply accepted we are damned. The nightmare will be upon us shortly. People will awaken to it slowly only to realize it is too late.
Yeah i mean it's slowly coming out and people are waking up, but it's going to be a slow dreadful process for those people who are already awake. Worst thing is, you can't mention this kind of thinking to people because they will think you are crazy. So you isolate because you can't connect with people because they are brainwashed or still plugged in to the matrix.
Social media was a good way to make everyone sheep
fuck both you guys im movin to iceland
@@calvinnigh5489 only them 2...?
They can't rip the sould out of you if you are woke. You have a mission to not let your kids be indoctrinated aswell. That's how you defy this dreadful future we have comming. You can always get off grid and live as you want too. The isolation is only logical, but don't feel as if you lost the battle. There is more of us. We will be devided, the society can never be homogenous, there will always be people like us, the outcasts and misfits. 1984 and BNW are already here, and guess what, i can still breathe the fresh air of my country side and grow my own plants, think for myself and read. Don't feel down, be happy that you will teach your children what sheep live around them :)
I'm not damned!! I have a saviour King Jesus.. Come on now.. Smh
the whole time I felt like I was watching one of the pharmaceutical commercials that use a cartoon to soften up the propaganda. wow we are already in a brave new world.
In my country advertising of pharmacueticals is forbidden. Any attempt to address this must be couched in an ad by describing the problem, then "ask your doctor", with no mention of the product. So it's quite a shock to come to America and see all these ads for drugs, so unethical and irresponsible. It really puts things into perspective on how the US system is run by money, not care.
Strangely this national ad ban doesn't apply to vitamins or supplements that go largely untested by the authorities, so now we have some of the most successful "therapeutic" companies based here.
@JowJow Not in N America, or in Europe
@1-888- IM-TELLN South Specific
I wonder how this book would have been different if it was told from the perspective of someone from the lower classes. Most of the people in this comment section agree that life in BNW is better than in 1984, but I doubt that the lower castes of BNW were enjoying the same amount of leisure and indulgence as the upper castes.
I think that everyone in bnw enjoyed life in their way. Remember that each group has had it's own conditioning and it's even said by the world controller that the lower castes are happier because they don't need to do any mental work
"I'm so glad I'm an Alpha"
"If you were a Beta you would've said the same"
I agree to an extent, but at the same time the lower classes were bred to be lower class. They were manufactured to only care about what they are supposed to care about.
Look up interviews with someone who escaped north korea.
I find it so crazy how old this book is but how the author was talking about stuff that is low-key relevant today I don't normally like books that are this old because I find them quite boring and hard to read but this story really caught my attention and I would agree that this one of the best books ever.
Well, that was depressing.
+Periapse
why depressing? it is pretty good world far better than ours
because it literally is our world right now!
*****
Not even close in relaity.
You only see it on tv but in real world nothing of that exists.
*****
great and so how often you use those drugs and how many women you bring to your bed each week?
Ok maybe you are not interested in women ad drugs, so how many of your friends enjoy sex with different woman every day like in that book?
and how often women are inviting you to have sex like in that book.
*****
You did not mentioned any numbers I asked,. just because you had sex with few women in your life that does not even come close to what is told in this book.where you are expected to have sex with new person once a week at least and if you don't you are seen as some freak.
also you admit that you have to go clubbing to get women and probably you have to spend money on them and they wont ask you for sex.
and finally you are talking about young adult demographic, if you include older people situation will be totally reversed
Can't believe the implication that John killed Lenina at the end wasn't mentioned here. It was the most impactful part of the book when I read it.
Also John's mother dies while he's shaking her violently because she called him by the name of her savage lover instead of John.
i don't even know what to say at this point
That's because you have just been thru an excercise of "...dumming down masses"; boycott the series
ice wallow come
@@hvosouq you make zero sense lol
@@hvosouq Mag on!
Truth is always more horrifying than fiction ?
Us before Lockdown: Ah, don't worry, this could never really happen.
Us after Lockdown: Pass me the f"ckn soma now!
goldeneddie WHERE THE ORGY PORGEY AT?!? 😂
Quit kidding yourself
@@iflax7460 Yes, exactly my point my friend...
Got a big bottle of CBD to get through lockdown. It's almost out, need restock
IFlax tittyentainment .
Ol bernard wants to be an individual but also wants to fit in so bad.
Yeah, a complex character...going against himself a lot. That's why he is my favorite, I hate his flaws because I like him, just what Helmholtz says.
I was rooting for him till he begged the director to spare him all the while snitching on his friends....damn, I was hella disappointed.
@@natalieanimal4063 wow, you hit the nail on the head
He’s literally Patrick Bateman
This is one of the best books i've ever read. Fucking masterpiece and an incredible reflection of today's society.
A very clever friend recommended it too Mr at university. Couldn't put it down.
@@philiposborne982 So I'm in high school and I was required to read it. Would you mind telling me more about this book it is a little hard to read.
Wasn’t it published almost a century ago?
I totally agree, and not just because you are insanely hot
I would much rather live in dangerous freedom than in peaceful slavery.
As if you had a choice?
benjamin franklin :)
@@danielcrase *Thomas Jefferson
@@Rockwillliveon-lu1tk u right😅
Opposite for me. I'd willingly give up on some freedoms to make society more suited to my ideal vision
The bit at the start where Alphas, Betas and Deltas are described as being seperated by intelligence through oxygen deprivation set the tone of the rest of the book for me... So harrowing yet imaginable.
Consumption, weed, tinder, and genetic modification
It's scary how also is Huxley predicted so many of these things
Yo this nigga watches Rick and Morty
so who's gonna tell him that weed existed before the book came out
Weed? he predicted a plant that has been used since pre history?. Wow what a revelation
That's nothing! There is a publication version that includes Huxley's essays. All written after Brave New World. Some written well after. Those essays are the sh*t!!!
Side note: Huxley regretted not adding the relatively new technology of the day, nuclear fission ( relatively new... See what I did right there? That's humor).
The book is an easy read, but the ending is nauseating. At least fort me anyway. I was cheering for Nina. I just knew for sure that Job and Nina would knock boots. Also three things: 1)Linda was nearly toothless and obese. 2) When Nina showed up to seduce Jon, she was dressed as... that's right, you guessed it, a sexy sailor. 3) Jon's final resting place was an old wind mill, not a lighthouse.
That is modern day Sweden, hell on earth...
Being free can lead to happiness
Freedom does not come easy, but “easy” is the same as “happy”
It's ALL about knowing the TRUTH.
John 14:6 "I AM the TRUTH" says Jesus
then He says:
John 8:32 "You shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you feee, (36) He who the Son setd free is free indeed.
Only Jesus can give ETERNAL 'Freedom'.
Accept Jesus as Savior in this lifetime, I encourage oyu 😁
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@@cjnav7832 why is He truth?
@@dioN_37 Great question, Dion.
Because he never lied.
He is the gauge for Truth.
He is the ONLY complete 100% unadulterated Truth.
Lastly, He said He was:
"I AM the Truth, the Way, the Life and nobody comes to My Father but through Me"
God bless you, Dion on the Resurrection Sunday!!! 😁
@@cjnav7832 what about the missing 20-30 years of his life
If you put 1984 and Brave New World in a blender and left it to run for 40 years, you will produce the 2020s.
Everywhere.
Or "Panem".
@@Viewable11 Accurate
Same
2030 will be very ugly !
First world countries: brave new world
Third world contries: 1984
And countries like mine that are a bit of both georaphically and politically: Fahrenheit 451 (which is sort of a mixture of the two)
@ludlow 889
Good comment
@Daveret Brunet I've never heard that book before. What's it about?
Unfortunately we are free in this our third world country in West Africa. We are not locked up n not forcefully spoon fed with information by the media...
Nice
This book was absolutely terrifying to me. I see us heading down this path.
> Jwh Merica I thought 'On the Beach' was More depressing ...
You forgot to mention that the director resigned his post in shame after realizing he was John's father.
Less of a piece of fiction more like a prophecy. We're almost there already.
He was an insider
Brave New World, 1984, and ferinhyte 451 were supposed to be warnings. Instead they are being used as blueprints.
@Andre Kaasik How? As in how old are you?
I love how people are acting as if contemporary society is somewhat ideal, we live in an extreme wealth disparity society in which four US states (California, Texas, New York, Florida) have more wealth than all of Africa and Latin America combined. And despite our technological achievement and all the abundance that we have, the vast majority of people have to slave away their productive days just to earn the "right to live" pay for basic goods and utilities, such as rent, groceries, water and electricity. And as a European at least I have free education and healthcare, its even worse in America, where the minimum wage has not grown since 1980s. All the wealth is concentrated between 500 families and our Democracy is a joke where we have the illusion of choice that doesn't exist in the first place. And that would be bearable if at least our civil liberties are guaranteed, what is alarming is that most states in the world have turned Conservative and have increased policing, infringed on free speech and free press, minorities for example homosexuals cannot even marry outside the most developed countries. Not to mention that you cannot cope with narcotics either, weed is illegal in the vast majority of the world, so you would probably have to self-administer yourself hard narcotics without a medical prescription that would eventually kill you.
"You vill own nothing and be happy" K. Schwab
"Orgy Porgy" always makes me laugh
I think that Soma could be regarded (in today's world) as entertainment technology, or TV, or alcohol, or drugs. We all have our Soma, but most of them detach us from the natural world and eachother. Facebook, for some, is the Soma for people who think they have loads or friends, but in reality live their life online. The Internet itself is conditioning many kids to hate books and going outside (books / flowers similarity), so could be seen as the Pavlovian Conditioning mentioned.
So much already going on in today's society has parallels to BNW that it is very disturbing as a realisation.
but the counter is the internet can free our minds if we use it as such. its literally a global brain with all books and all information. Although yes many aretrapped by it, its also wakingvpeopke up and getting amounts of information accessible neber before been possible
Soma = MDMA
i completely agree. soma is a metaphor for the distractions that occupy us, not just a specific drug as some here have interpreted.
Phil Weatherley Considering that cannabis is a psychedelic and can cause counterproductivity in society, the comparison is invalid. Soma would resemble more of the made-available comforts of the modern first world.
Cody Roderick the internet can be censored
This is a good summary but shouldn't all of the boys at 7:46 look identical since they're all a part of one Delta Bokanovsky group? The fact that they were kind of clones is imperative.
+Lauren Wright You're right. "What seemed an interminable stream of identical eight-year-old male twins was pouring into the room. Twin after twin, twin after twin, they came - a nightmare". p. 154.
+Fran Mardones I didn't notice it before. Good observation.
ALSO, I think they could've depicted Linda a little more grossly.
He reminds me of those Goth kids on South Park. They form a group of their own conforming to the Goth culture. Meanwhile, they accuse everyone else to be conformists.
Well done synopsis. I believe this book is closer to reality today than 1984 or any of the other dystopian novels.
I don't but I can see why you'd say that
I feel that Huxley more accurately depicted the future of the west than Orwell. Orwell’s 1984 was a commentary on events occurring in Europe at the time, rather than the Americas.
I think it’ll be a combination of both.
1984 is what happened in Europe during the Cold War, and what is happening in North Korea and the People's Republic of China right now. Basically, it's a commentary on communist dictatorship in general and stalinist dictatorship in particular. By the way, Orwell was a socialist anarchist.
It is not at all. Orwell is so misunderstood by the western world its hilarious…
@@johanrunfeldt7174 and the trumpist ideology, the current putinist regime, and the tendencies that all of us are capable of leaning into. 1984 pertains to so much more than the communist/nazist dictatorships.
South and latin america are turning into 1984
This orgy bvllsh1t only would be for the USA
all of you complain about you have to read this for your exams. Never complain about reading. It's one of our last true escapes.
I actually cant believe how many comments I've read on here about people complaining, being bored, using this as a reference. When I was handed this book in a class in High School. I knew nothing about it, and after I started reading I couldn't put it down. BNW became one of my most favorite books. I wish the complainers would actually give it a chance and "really" read it.
Its not really much of an escape when you're made to read it, dissect it, interpret it, and be graded for it. Not to mention kids reading it aloud really kill it, its pretty understandable how school takes the fun out of a lot of books.
And a lot of them aren't meant to be escapes, they're meant to interpret parts of life and tell you about them, talk about the downers and whatnot in life, escapes are things more like TV or fantasies where people shut themselves from real life and pretend they're somewhere better.
ah haha yea I hear you. we were not made to read it out loud. If so I was most likely sleeping during that time. We were giving the chance to make our own interpretation on it. But, I'm sure a lot of schools do not do the same thing. Which can take a lot out of the book. I also never used this book as an escape this book is far from that. I'm not sure where you got the idea of escape from what I wrote. I was just sad to hear how many people hate this book.
The book sounds cool and everyone wants to read it but once they read it they realize it's boring.
Not when it's assigned and you have other homework lol but I'm watching this for fun
Thank you so much for making these videos!! :)
Yet there are two mistakes in the picture at 7:36 that I felt like pointing out.
1. I see the other old people in the beds next to Linda being visualized as old. That isn't exactly right because even though they're physically old they're still supposed to look young because of the soma they took all their lives which kept them looking young in contrast to Linda of course who couldn't take soma in the reservation.
2. I thought the boys playing around Linda's bed were all manufactured twins. In the picture they don't resemble each other at all.
Correct me if I'm wrong...
None of the people in the pictures were really twins. it really bugged me too
Yess!!! Dude FINALLY. I thought I was the only anal one who actually READ THE BOOK! (Clearly the illustrator didn't. Just excerpts.) A lot of these pictures should have twins in them.
Also the lab has all old fashioned pencil skirts even though the book specifically describes (very futuristic at the time) women wearing trousers, which I thought was important. Also it doesn't follow the class system's color scheme from the book...They literally talk about respective class colors almost every page in early chapters. Linda &Bernard would wear Alpha colors, not pink and random different colors.
I know this is an old comment but as I understood it, it wasn't soma that kept the people young but rather just the medical advance.
I'm not quite sure, but they do have some freedom of choice regarding their clothing. At the very least Alphas and Betas do. Both the green and the white Outfit of Lenina's are pretty accurately depicted, at least this much I remember. But other than that yeah, the caste system is so badly understated in this video that it almost feels like they didn't wanna draw too much attention to it, despite it being one of the main points of the novel.
Also, the picture when they're in the garden, one of the students is a girl. Weren't it all male students?
I love that I tried to reply to a commenter on this topic and had to adjust the spelling of a dozen words because TH-cam's wrongthink filter struck the comment down automatically. All I did was address the new TV series. Amazing. We truly are in a cross between BNW and 1984. A real tech dystopia in the making.
We are currently living in brave new world and heading towards 1984.
I thought it would end up like Brave New World but now that regimes around the world are declaring martial law, I think I may have been wrong
@@nodarkthings this news article is very revealing www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/26/gordon-brown-calls-for-global-government-to-tackle-coronavirus.
@Chez Bezz add Henry kissinger, David rockefeller to that despicable list
Thesis - anti-thesis - synthesis
@@ugay9379 Hegelian Dialectic ✌
I still find this book creepy...
well its fucking happening whether u are aware of it or not.. GM food. chemtrails. wars. fluoride. taxes. etc. etc.
WOO HOO!
***** Warfare wasn't talked about in the book. It was a critique of consumerism.
It's creepy because we are living in this Utilitarian nightmare. And it's the same thinking that Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne and Sam Harris of the New Atheist movement think.
CosmoShidan You mean America right? I hope you know not to assume things about how people live lol...
What’s creepy is that this sounds like modern life!
Bingo you right
Which part?
Corgwyn theCorgi : I think the academic historians are a joke!
Marty Kane
David Icke is an insider. He wouldn’t be making millions if he wasn’t. But he does speak some truth but he also hides a lot.
@@fineartist7456 Agreed - and he cracks me up from time to time -
Great video . I just read that book for the first time last year. Great story. Should be required reading for every young teenager. I'm 65, but young at heart, I guess? Next subject: Soma, and drug addiction. I've seen people, and come close to that myself. Marajana/ alcohol use. Some people I've known that escaped suffering through drugs, might have done so much more. "Soma" use, sometimes, and often destroyed thier creativity within a few years. They became sad and borring, and never grew to be more prolific . They just needed to realize that suffering is a natural state of all living things sometimes. Everyone should think for themselves, and adapt. I'm getting preachy. I thought that the Savage was very Central to the story. He was very excited about going to The Brave New world! To me his old world didn't seem much better? I came away from reading that book hoping future generations will be wiser, and question athourity more. The hilter youth sang a song in school that said at the end of the song that Hitler would rule the brave new world. When I saw a old film of little girls singing that song, in a classroom. I decided to read this book. I also like to read books that were burned by the Nazis at that time . Brave New World is a fine read, had a few laughs too. I liked when they were throwing the Soma out the window, and punching the uselful fools.
Lol Don
The amazing fact is that Huxley was able to predict the future so well.
You mean plan the future so well
Then you should check out the last book he wrote, "Island"
Just read the book, pretty amazing how even after 80 years, this novel still manages to be valuable and appliable to our current society. Its almost like huxley was fortune teller and knew the direction we are heading, and created a timeless vision of a probable future scenario. Also quite interesting how the role of the main character shifted from Bernard to John and Bernard became more and more irrelevant.
I can't believe the amount of criticism directed toward Huxley's writing. It sounds as if these idiots are expecting a writer from a time period in which novels had attained the peak of a perfect balance between logic, analysis and observation to construct an easily accesible story relevant to its time to hold himself applicable to our modern nuances and desperate need for novels to read like films to satisfy our short attention spans that require suspense every 30 seconds or we switch off to watch the latest blockbuster film to fill our empty voids with 'meaning.'
Huxley was a brilliant writer for his time. He got to the point rather quickly, in my opinion, he had the virility to write something with meaning and integrity and he chose not to embelish his story with too much symbolisim and far-fetched tripe as modren writers do tend. I wonder how some of these people would take Tolstoy? Now that can be trying. However, rewarding, his writing is far beyond the limitations of people with the attention spans of the common housefly.
+Matthew Sifonios I'm a big fan of novels that deal with Dystopian/Utopian societies and Brave New World is by leagues the most plausible/believable. In particular this holds true over another juggernaut of the genre 1984. Both books were excellent. However, Brave New World is far more plausible. The reason that I say that is because humans naturally strive towards happiness and harmony within their environment. Fear can be used to control the masses as scene in 1984, however, a system of fear has far less stability. Keeping a web of fear intact takes a great deal of secrecy and effort. However, a system like that in Brave New World is self sustaining. That is what spooked/intrigued me about Brave New World. It's extremely easy to point out the weaknesses and flaws of the system in 1984, however the same can't be said about Brave New World. Even now I'm conflicted about whether or not the world would indeed be a better a place if we had a system that exists in Brave New World.
I want to punch the thumbs up button so many times after reading that nearly one liner paragraph and the last line. Good job!
A lot of people WOULD take.the blue pill...
You critique writing, but write run-on sentences and don't punctuate appropriately.
Even though he's an old writer, there are still books from his time that are understandable. Unlike BNW, which has the inability to tell an actual story.
A small art inconsistencies I found: Alphas were tall (2 meters iirc) and only Bernard was 1.70m. Other alphas joked about him that the batch of eggs he was made from had alcohol dropplets fallen into by accident. So basically he should have been drawn shorter than every other alpha he spoke to.
The narrative and art itself is spot on otherwise. A well done review. 4/5 stars from me.
One problem with this video is that there’s never a scene showing the mass produced humans. The book has several descriptions of rooms filled with identical people, notably the scene when Linda is dying in bed and a group of identical children swarm around her. But here ever person is drawn as an individual. It’s missing one of the biggest visuals of the novel for me.
This is the best book I have read since “Heart of Darkness”.
This video gives a great synopsis!
I am interested in the seminal reason of
“What does it mean to be human?”
“What is the nature of reality?”
Huxley also made a sequel novel called "Island," which he wanted to make a utopian compromise of Savages and the Civilization.
And he also said that the exiling of disobedient citizens was less of a punishment but more like freedom.
The Mustapha Mond monologue near the end was one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I had ever read. Still love it
18 and reading this now and goddamn, I am watching the world turn into this
Why is each person wearing multiple colours? I guess the illustrator never read the book.
if you tako a look at that lady's eyebrow during bernard's ritual, you will see he did
nice video, yet there are 3 problems
1. the boys in the hospital were from an inferior caste and are all look the same and wear the same Delta khaki uniform
2. every patient in the hospital apart Linda suppose to look young and healthy
3. the hospital workers were also Delta castes and therefore were all looking the same with red hair
Amazingly explained. Just finished the audio book and I can't say I enjoyed it as much as your video. Thanks!
The letter I got from my sons daycare the other day, explaining the new "deconfinement" measures, explained how if a child is in distress, the daycare giver will console him, after which she will wipe the "excretions " from his face and neck, and place all the "soiled" garments in a sealed bag, and put him in a new change of clothes. In the primary school where my daughters went (they arent going back, we are now homeschooling after reading the following letter), the children may not play with any objects (balls etc) or on the playground equipment and will be required to keep a distance of 2 m from each other at all times. Disinfection stations have been set up for "disinfection rituels" throughout the day. After reading all this I thought of Brave New World. We are in Brave New World.
I was just wondering what country are u in? And haven't the schools been closed? I couldn't hardly believe what u wrote. But with all the insanity lately, I do not doubt it. I would hate to have young children right now. I love children, but this is hell and the world will never know freedom again. And as a parent, u will face horrible things and terrible choices. I am so sorry. I wish I could help. But we are all screwed.
@@placeofmirages9518 We are in Québec, Canada. I decided to home school and will probably continue doing so, even if this craziness ends, which it wont (like you, I believe it is here to stay.) But we are keeping our kids as normal an environment as possible. Thankfully we still have some good friends that are normal. Or should I say..."savage". We are savage.
How is this like "Brave new world?" For real? lmao. Are they conditioning your son to not like nature and books? Are they giving him brain damamage before he is born? Are you in a caste? Is he a slave with a predestined life? Are they turning our daughters into free martins? DO ou wear colours based on your pre destined caste? Sorry this is stupid.
@@taralynnhoffmann5831 We are in a pandemic. So sanitation makes sense.
I actually refused to watch this video or anything related to Brave New World until I finished reading the novel. That way, I get to experience it in my mind uninfluenced by anything else.
Same! And I'm very glad I did :)
I did the same!
Omg same,a classmate held a presentation on brave new world and that's what got me into reading it.she also showed this video at the end and i tried my best to not hear it.
I should do that as well ahaha I just wanted to see what type of story I was getting into as we have to read it at school
I did the same.
There will never be a drug without consequences. Nothing comes for free.
the consequence of soma is pacification
Weed is pretty cool
Psilocybin
@@pureog1479weed makes you stupid and lazy and unmotivated passive which is why a long prescription drugs is made legal
This book is more relevant than ever.
It is all about the unchecked hedonism our current society indulges in.
Is it about unchecked hedonism? Or is it about slavery and not having freedom of choice? THese people are slaves before they are born.
@@violettippet5246 it's about the combination of these things. people think they are free but in reality they're slaves to their desires, enabled by our ever-growing industries and propaganda.
@@stanpines9011 Can humans ever really be free?
@@violettippet5246 that depends on your definition of free
@@stanpines9011 Define free.
TikTok, Instagram, Euphoria, Metaverse. People think this book was an exaggeration, but it becomes more accurate each day.
This is what utopia looks like, were behaving like robots,slaves, and which means were the sheeps. Both Orwell and Huxley's books predicts the dangers and warnings of events occur in the future.
This is not a utopia, this is a dystopia. There is a difference If you didn't know. Think before you speak, not to sound rude.
+Ernesto Ferrusquilla In the effort to create a Utopia it results in Dystopia. Progress is a belief, utopia the religion of progressive liberals.
***** History is the dynamic conflict of polarities, in this case: Technological Progress creates and intensifies new forms of Social Progress and vice versa. All forms of Social Progress are Nihilism. Life has no goal, no aim, the more you strive to create an aim, the more intense will its opposite appear.
+CartoonPhilosopher I can only understand half the things your saying. can you please explain it to me where a inferior individual like me can understand.
Ernesto Ferrusquilla Life is about the interplay, the dance, the dialog, the conflict of opposites: male/female, light/dark, infinite/finite, Technological/Social Progress. The secret conflict of Technological/Social Progress is the meaning of the Star Wars movies. Darth Vader representing Mechanized Economic Globalization vs Emotional Idealistic Progressives of Social Progress.
OK?
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
― William Blake
This summary is so insanely helpful to me as a student who read the book and didn’t understand the style of writing
2020: It's happening
This is the word we are living in..
It will evolve to the idiocracy..
Like 1984, this dystopian vision reads like an instruction manual for the New World Order.
Every detailed warning of bad things to come are a manual for our malefactors....? Come off it brother. The NWO had all this type of information to begin with. The sleeping normies are the ones who need a wake up call
Fun fact: Orwell and Huxley were both freemasons. Huxley's brother Julian was involved with the founding of the UNO, while Aldous himself introduced LSD into the hippy movement, build the hippy movement and contributed to MK Ultra.
@@ugay9379 UNO? I assume you arent talking about the game
@@briandiehl9257 United Nations Organisation, how did you get that wrong?
@@ugay9379 I didnt get it wrong, i was just saying i had never seen that acronym before. Are you refereing to the UN? Because i have never seen it with an O before
one of the best books I've ever read
A book everyone should read
This is freakily close to the mental images my mind came up with whilst reading the book...
*He tried to warn us.*
THANK YOU SO MUCH. This book was written so strangely I never picked up on certain things - like: 96 identical twins, the savage camp, the fact that there are four main characters, i mean my god. The book was written insanely choppy and coulda used massive editing and some footnotes.
lol go back to reading harry potter. BNW is a masterpiece.
Andy Warth got me dead
This is one of my favorite books. Not everyone is a fan of Huxley's writing, but I think he absolutely nailed modern society (much more than 1984 ever did).
1984 describes how communist countries govern, example: north Korea, east Germany after world war 2
Oh my, here we are in 2021.. This is no longer SUR-real.
Yet, we still have all the negatives of the real world, and none of the good aspects of the stability in brave new world
2020 adaptation of Brave New World is pretty close to the book with few tweaks here and there but most of the time it stays true to the source material.
Whatever your take on how good or bad the 2020 Peacock adaptation might be in its own right, calling it "pretty close to the book" is a pretty gross distortion. They took the names and some basic concepts from the book, true, but they changed a LOT. The characterizations were changed, in some cases significantly. Many of the background societal concepts were heavily modified or eliminated completely. They added in new conceptualizations in the interest of "bringing it up to date" that had nothing to do with the source material and muddled Huxley's message.
In their defense, "Brave New World" has always been regarded as a difficult book to adapt to the screen. But I definitely wouldn't laud this version as being a good representation.
These videos are counterproductive. It is too fast to induce thinking. This is why reading is important. It allows the reader to think about the issues in depth.
I warched the video to make sure that i understood the whole book since the writing style was kinda confusing sometimes and it was really helpful.
The point is to entice someone to read the book.
i always watch these after i have read the book to make sure i picked up on everything that happened
Pause?
I like the OP, and all proceeding comments. All are valid and wonderful. 10/10 thread of thinking right here.
Nice illustrations, great job! Although you forgot to mention that Lenina showed up along w/ the crowd at the end which led him to start beating her as well as himself. :)
So it WAS lenina after all,i KNEW it.
Soma is an intoxicating elixir in heaven according to Hindu culture
It's a mix of a mushroom amanita muscaria and either alcohol or milk, can't remember.
What is truly amazing, is that I read Brave New World when I was in High School (many years ago), and I remember NOTHING!
I have to point, that the video and the comment section are both interesting, to me... all the discussion and interpretation people wrote are enjoyable to read... usually I don't have patience for this.
I'm currently reading this book for an assignment in my AP Lang class in high school and it gets quite confusing at a lot of parts. This helped out a lot.
The thing I found confusing about the book is that I couldn't see any dystopia.
If you learn to live with being uncomfortable, you will have an easy life.
If you learn to live with an easy life, you will be very uncomfortable.
Anyone else here after the World Economic Forum laid out their plans for a "Great Reset"?
excuse me what 👁👄👁
And now the WEF has a video on Uplink, everything is hooked to the "Cloud". Orwell 1984. Rosa Koire explains UN Agenda 21 (track and control and depopulation): th-cam.com/video/thRD6YVCoLQ/w-d-xo.html
WEF👈 Public Enemy #1
Sorry a WHAT???
I was all set up to do an adult book club at my local library, and then i had to have a final meeting with the head librarian to discuss what book i would be starting with. I said I wanted to do Brave New World, and I received a dirty look and had my book club terminated before it began.
It's been 45 years since I read this book in high school. Here's how I came to watch this video today as a refresher: Postmodern Realities Podcast:: "Ditching Netflix? Engaging Pop Culture in the Age of Binge-Watching” referenced the book _Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business_ (1985) by educator Neil Postman. In the book, Postman weighs and differentiates Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.
This has become ever more prevalent in today’s society. From the darkest depths of porn addiction, I will prosper. I will not give in.
May God hear you and help you. 🙏
A huge chunk is missing at the end:
From www.gradesaver.com/brave-new-world/q-and-a/what-drives-john-to-hang-himself-317544
John lost control of himself and took soma, whipped Lenina and participated in the orgy. He lost in whatever he believed in. He lost control of himself and took soma, whipped Lenina and participated in the orgy. He lost in whatever he believed in, that is why he hanged himself.
I might actually read this book since the video probably did not just miss this one crucial detail at the end.
Did you read it?
Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyes
Saw pain in a new way, high stakes for a few names
Racing against sun beams, losing against their dreams
In your eyes
And I am stop and go
- The Strokes
Thanks for the executive summary of this feel-good summer RomCom classic. 😆
The most unrealistic part of the book is that dissenters were sent away instead of killed. It adds to the idea that the author may have been underhandedly endorsing this type of future.
I hear you but I also think about how Castro and Chavez were released after initial jailing only to then go on and actually complete the revolutions they started preciously. I guess they have to weigh the risk of making a martyr vs permanently resolving a "problem". in the west though, at least for the civil rights movement, the state did just off actual change makers like Fred Hampton and Huey P Newton
This story becomes more and more relevant and applicable each and every day.
Hey, I just finished reading Brave New World for my first time, and I wanted to seek out other explanations or interpretations to bring sense to it all. I was very, very happy to find your video. You did an excellent job, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. the animation and the explanations were just right, not rushed, and the important notes well fleshed-out. Thanks again, I subscribed and hope that we meet again sometime. Thanks a bunch!
Sharksizzle.
Amazing how accurate and prophetic this 1931 novel was. In the novel, everyone's on SOMA. Today, everyone's on pot or anti-depressants (aka, SOMA). And it's only going to get worse.
Until you realize religion, old media, and desire for nature and to follow working isn't in our present. Not only that, but pot doesn't always make people happy and anti depressants are used to relieve a mental problem, not just to make you feel happy.
I got news for you, Religion is still very much in our present.
Like syphilis.
Give it 20 more years and then we may be closer to Brave New World.
And yet...people take antidepressants...when they are not happy. Hmm.
This is one of the greatest books of its type ever written.
Orwell envisioned terror, Huxley envisioned pleasure. Both men saw how man himself could be stripped and shackled. I think Orwell was the better writer, but Huxley was right about the path the West would take.
What an interesting book. I felt bad for John though. I thought he deserved better but I was expecting him to die after he had went against his ideals. I like how the author didn't just flat out say he killed himself but described how his feet were rotating in cardinal directions. I liked Bernard, Hemholtz, and Lenina as well. They were good characters but they all essentially stayed the same. The one who changed the most was John and he killed himself for it. I would have liked if he could live alone in peace but the ending we got was deeper in meaning. I'm glad I read this book for school because I would not have read it otherwise.
Missed the crucial part about the ending. John assaults Lenina, (or it is strongly implied it's her) which is why he kills himself.
Brave New World paves the way to 1984.
Choose freedom over comfort and seek a life of meaning rather than happiness, once you find meaning you will never have to look for happiness again because you have already found it within meaning. ~Dingo Lightfoot~