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Title: A poor cousin to richer dystopias
Review: It might be easy to spot what aspects of our society Huxley is satirising, in his heavy-handed way, and take THEM seriously; but it's impossible to take Huxley's society seriously. He undercuts his own earnest world-building in order to get a cheap laugh. Worse, he leaves out crucial details which might give us some clue as to what's going on. That we aren't told whether or not Huxley's Brave New People are really happy, is fair enough. That we aren't even told enough to be able to deduce whether or not they are happy is inexcusable: it undercuts any possible moral Huxley may be trying to impart, and believe me, he's certainly trying to impart some moral or other. (He scarcely stops trying long enough to tell a story.) George Orwell was another left-wing British writer inspired by Yvgeny Zamyatin's "We", and his vision is vastly better - as is "We" itself.
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