Brave New World

???One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.???
~The whole book can be summed up in this one line.

Checkout this brilliant comic strip explaining this very phenomenon :
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Have started and put down this book two times. Paired it up with the audio book recorded by Steve Parker. Third time's the charm eh?
Here's the link to the first chapter, complete with sound effects :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2wHvdW4QA

Reading/ listening to dystopia during a pandemic just hits different.
Huxley brilliantly weaves a Utopian world during the first few chapters of the book.
A world without conflict. A world where everyone's happy, and everyone belongs to everyone else.

Solves all the problems, right?



As the chapters unfold however, we see the grave injustices being carried out against those who are none the wiser. Slowly and steadily the author takes us through the murky past, mixing Shakespeare in between. (I know, that was a nice surprise)
Absolutely loved reading the chapters where the “civilized” citizens visited the “savage” citizens and the conversations with the controller.

A must read, for every dystopia lover or otherwise.