Aldous Huxley

You told us to read an article on Aldous Huxley.... I googled his name and scrolled down quite far past the biographies and past the Wikipedia basic state of facts and I found this interesting website.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/books/review/what-would-aldous-huxley-make-of-the-way-we-consume-media-and-popular-culture.html?pagewanted=all


In this article published by Adam Kirsh and Jennifer Szalai they talk about how Aldous (even being born in 1894) predicted such an on-point prediction in how our society would be today.

In Adam's short blip he had said, "What has come true in “Brave New World,” to a much larger extent, is the liberation of sexuality. If you compare our generation to Huxley’s, there’s no doubt that we listen to more explicitly erotic music, wear more revealing clothing, form and break sexual attachments much more casually, and teach our children to be free from sexual shame — all things he predicted, queasily, in his novel. There may not yet be a musical instrument called a “sexophone,” but the Internet has done more to make sexual images, and sex itself, available than anything Huxley imagined."

Being a reader that has not yet read the novel and understood the true meaning and theme/moral throughout the story I cannot make an opinion on that observation, but just reading on Aldous' work I'm truly amazed and inspired I believe that to be 100% true. Sexuality has being such a HUGE role in our society today, most people very rarely acknowledge that. Just like Adam said, we listen to more explicit erotic music, wear more revealing clothes, form sexual relationships much more casually, watch and view images that are very risqué and teach our children proper etiquette based off our sexuality! Aldous Huxley seemed like an enormous inspiring man and I cannot wait to dive into his work reading his interpretations and opinion on an Utopian society.