Brave New World
How much of a human is a human?
January 15, 2022
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Sodam Publishing
2015-06-12
9788973814725
Review
This work directly pits the values of
Is stable happiness where pain, sadness, and anxiety are completely removed truly a human life? Conversely, is imperfect freedom, where one agonizes, suffers from love, and faces death, more valuable?
I once asked a question in a book club about what it would be like if there were a brave new world like this work.
I think I would have conformed to such a world and lived satisfied. In fact, I don't think the world in this work is bad.
I didn't like Bernard's arrogance and conceit, thinking as if humans should be something.
Would he have had such thoughts if he had been good-looking in accordance with his class?
The words that one has the right to be unhappy, the right to grow old and ugly, and the right to suffer sounded like very violent and rude words to those who are actually suffering and want to escape from pain.
I don't want to hear such things from a protagonist who is a silver spoon even though his appearance is not so.
I don't think it's a right to be claimed by someone who doesn't know true pain.
Although it is an old classic, the value of the fundamental message the work throws is still overwhelming.
Now that artificial intelligence and biotechnology are brilliantly developing, and virtual reality and stimulating content are overflowing, Brave New World is the most powerful and timely mirror that makes us look back on what we are gaining and what we are losing through technological development.
happiness and freedom against each other.Is stable happiness where pain, sadness, and anxiety are completely removed truly a human life? Conversely, is imperfect freedom, where one agonizes, suffers from love, and faces death, more valuable?
I once asked a question in a book club about what it would be like if there were a brave new world like this work.
I think I would have conformed to such a world and lived satisfied. In fact, I don't think the world in this work is bad.
I didn't like Bernard's arrogance and conceit, thinking as if humans should be something.
Would he have had such thoughts if he had been good-looking in accordance with his class?
The words that one has the right to be unhappy, the right to grow old and ugly, and the right to suffer sounded like very violent and rude words to those who are actually suffering and want to escape from pain.
I don't want to hear such things from a protagonist who is a silver spoon even though his appearance is not so.
I don't think it's a right to be claimed by someone who doesn't know true pain.
Although it is an old classic, the value of the fundamental message the work throws is still overwhelming.
Now that artificial intelligence and biotechnology are brilliantly developing, and virtual reality and stimulating content are overflowing, Brave New World is the most powerful and timely mirror that makes us look back on what we are gaining and what we are losing through technological development.