Ep. 89 - May The Ford Be With You - (Brave New World)

Welcome to part two of our double bill on famous dystopia! In this episode Dan Holder and I delve into the 1931 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While disecting Huxley's vision of a dys(u?)topia, we chat about:

• How this should've been an essay
• Is this even dystopia?
• Boring mantra and cliches; and how they are the death of thought
• The passing of fads vs art
• Hedonistic "happiness"
• Ignorance of what you might want
• Biological manipulation
• Side effects of technology
• External vs Internal reasons for doing things
• Chestertons fence
• Scientific "arrogance"
• The ego when it is asked to elaborate on a conviction
• Disagreeability in thinkers

There is also spoilers for the movie Gattica at 40:05.

This episode was a blast, talk soon!