In article
Hypatia Nachshon writes:

But our whole capitalist-driven social structure (and I am a
card-carrying capitalist but with a human heart!) is directed at
creating an educational system [chuckle] whose aim is to turn out
consumers of [often bad] products people don't really need, and
[almost always bad] ideas that profit only Our Corporate Masters
and their whore-lackeys in Congress.

I read Brave New World somewhere around 1983. I recall finding the
component about obligatory consumption to be silly hyperbole.

I now think that Huxley's presentation was understated.

--
Drew Lawson

". . . And I never give a reason"
-- God, as channeled by Seven Nations

On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 6:42:39 AM UTC-8, Drew Lawson wrote:
In article
Hypatia Nachshon writes:

But our whole capitalist-driven social structure (and I am a
card-carrying capitalist but with a human heart!) is directed at
creating an educational system [chuckle] whose aim is to turn out
consumers of [often bad] products people don't really need, and
[almost always bad] ideas that profit only Our Corporate Masters
and their whore-lackeys in Congress.

I read Brave New World somewhere around 1983. I recall finding the
component about obligatory consumption to be silly hyperbole.

I've re-read it every few year since [censored date] and it gets scarier every time, as technology and above all VALLUES catch up to prescient prediction.(Can one say that?)

Same, incidentally, with "1984", which I read first as a university student way back when. I did not sleep well for a week. Next time I tried to read it, I was too scared to finish. It took years till I could approach it again.

Meantime, technology is rapidly catching up to Big Brother...

I now think that Huxley's presentation was understated.

Amen!

HB

--
Drew Lawson

". . . And I never give a reason"
-- God, as channeled by Seven Nations