Promiscuity is every citizen's duty

[TXlib]

I saw Brave New World on SciFi last night. It's been a long time since I read the book, but it seemed to follow the book pretty well.

I'll tell you, between Brave New World and 1984, I'd take feelies, soma, and sex over total repression any day!

[CBGLuthier]

1. Must have been a very looong time

I tried to watch that version once and it was so bad I couldn't stomach it.

There was a pretty good version in the early 80s or so with Keir Dullea and Brad Dourif, but this one with Nimoy just didn't do it for me.

I never watched it all but can you tell me, does the "savage" come to the same end in that version?

[TXlib]

2. Yeah, I last read the book in 1988.

So I may well be misremembering portions of the book. But the major plot themes seemed to be there.

And the "savage" came to pretty much the same end.

[JanMichael]

3. BNW in a heartbeat over 1984!

How bad could it possibly be?!

[mistertrickster]

4. I dunno . . . the one thing about 1984 was that everybody KNEW

they lived in a totalitarian state and were being manipulated--except for the really dumb people, as usual.

In BNW, they thought they were in a "perfected" world in which the old taboos had finally been eliminated--much more self-deception.

That's what I see happening in America right now--the belief that society is the way it is because of "natural" and "inevitable" forces that people can't really fight or change.

The law of supply and demand for instance or the American form of capitalism--it's like it just sprang into being and can't be controlled, as if individuals have no real will.

So we end up caring more about who wins "Survivor" than who wins the next election.