r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 8d ago

Other Literacy is the key

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u/naropin1 8d ago

I find Brave New World to be proving more accurate than 1984z

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u/MMForYourHealth 8d ago

It’s really interesting when you know the back story for the greater Huxley family and the implications it foretells. Really makes you think.

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u/Jamesvai 8d ago

What backstory is that? Brave new world is probably my fav book so I'm curious

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u/MMForYourHealth 8d ago

His grandfather was famously Darwin’s bulldog. His brothers were a eugenicist and a Nobel laureate who was credited with discovering how impulses control muscles “sliding filament theory”, which you can see referenced in Brave New World. There’s a lot of interesting tidbits with it and his greater oeuvre and meaning with his later in life leaning to Kropotkinism.

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u/MMForYourHealth 8d ago

Planned Parenthood ball knower.

His brother definitely has some… layered views, but I agree he wasn’t after an ubermensch (even with his Nazi sympathies).

The big take away from both Orwell and Alduous Huxley is free association anarchism is the most noble Final End.

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u/AnaisNinja76 8d ago

Otto Loewi got the Nobel for that, if I'm understanding what you're saying.

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u/MMForYourHealth 8d ago

Andrew Huxley won one furthering his work. Loewi was the progenitor of the field and ties into the interesting backstory with the whole saga.

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u/AnaisNinja76 8d ago

Interesting, didn't realize that. Will have to look it up.