Aug 21, 2008

Brave New World | Huxley’s Brave New World as Social Irritant: Ban It or Buy It?

In the following excerpt, Richard H. Beckham argues against censoring Brave New World, claiming that the satire provides an insightful reflection of our human behavior and societal values.

It is obvious why someone who believes in censorship might choose to object to Brave New World. This world is a world of sexual promiscuity, a world with a drug culture in the most literal sense of that expression, a world in which the traditional family—in fact, any family at all—has been vilified and rendered taboo, a world in which religion has been reduced to orgiastic rituals of physical expression. It is a world in which art panders to the sensations of mass communications and a world in which the positive values of Western democracy have been ossified into a rigid caste...