[Das Outsider]

What can I say? I'm an avid reader of 20th-century dystopic fiction and writers like Francis Schaeffer and Dorothy Sayers: I just put the two together.

Huxley somehow managed to see down the pike, following his own line of reasoning, perhaps in spite of his family name and proclivities towards the psychedelic drug use and Eastern mysticism that helped carry us down this primrose path to the bombed-out, spiritual Sarajevo that we find ourselves in today.

[Jo Nuvark]

My you are waxing eloquent tonight.

I liked “Brave New World”. But we
do just the opposite. His little
axioms about throwing things out
and buying new haven’t come true.
We obsessively recycle, repair and
repurpose EVERYTHING.

However, he got the chemicalized
pacifization of society EXACTLY right.

Seems to me if we were really awake
our chemically suppressed depression
might motivate us to fight off the
raging hordes we’ve elected to lead
us down the rat hole.