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Return to a Brave New World

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Aldous Huxley's book "Return to a Wonderful New World" was first published in 1958 - and it is all the more interesting to read it nowadays: because in this work the great English writer and philosopher, in his polemical manner, drew parallels between the Western civilization of the bourgeois "golden age" of the 1950s and the dystopian totalitarian "consumer paradise" described in his most famous work of fiction - the novel "O Wonderful New World". Again and again Huxley compared his fictionalized world of the distant future many years ago with the very real world that surrounded him at the time of writing "The Return" - and again and again found signs of frightening, dangerous and increasingly obvious similarities ...
Where was he right and where was he wrong? Which of his predictions did not come true, and which, alas, came true with sad accuracy? The answers to these questions, strange as it may seem, are far from obvious....
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