Brave New World

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   Huxley has several concerns about birth control, and he is an honest enough writer that they conflict at times. He is concerned with the possibility of applying standardized manufacturing techniques to humans. At times he writes as if this were very alluring—as if societies won't be able to resist tinkering with babies en masse. He's also concerned about the possibility, even certainty, of state intrusion into the family. He clearly portrays state concerns as shallow, and as the controls they impose on reproduction as narrow-minded. At the same time, he recognizes that controlling desire, reproduction, and population is a route to incredible power, and that sexual desire is not the automatic and natural thing that many people assume.

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