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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2011, 08:17:14 AM » |
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I think the discussions about the 'morality' in BNW are quite interesting as a lot of people tend to put their own values on it.
Huxley was an atheist, in fact his grandfather invented the term agnostic... personally, what I took from the book was that you don't need 'religion' to know what is right and wrong - Huxley was making moral judgments on the world that was being presented, conditioning humans to act only on primal needs and to divide them into castes is generally a bad thing... but for no other reason than it just was...
It was more of a condemnation of consumerism than anything else... people are designed to consume, in a way that is pre-determined, and then turned into a consumable.
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