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CLEVER `BRAVE NEW WORLD'
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19980418
Author:Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff
Someday, the fascist utopian nightmare of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" may appear quaint. Either we will have fully embraced the grim dehumanization that Huxley cautioned against, or we will have held onto our ragged, needy, flawed souls despite some mind-blowing developments in science and technology. Like those air-raid drills of yesteryear, dire warnings about TV and the drugging of the masses and genetic engineering and the death of the family may end up wearing the sepia glaze of nostalgia.
In the meantime, Huxley's 1932 novel stands in 1998 as a strange reflection of the way we ...
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