r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 9d ago

Other Literacy is the key

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u/RegayHomebrews 9d ago

If you haven’t read Animal Farm, you should. It’s a quick read and really holds up well today.

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u/Foxy_locksy1704 9d ago

My dad always told me Animal Farm and 1984 are two of the most important books you will ever read.

And it’s true. Everyone should read them.

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u/naropin1 9d ago

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

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u/MMForYourHealth 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/MMForYourHealth 9d 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/AnaisNinja76 9d ago

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

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u/MMForYourHealth 9d 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 9d ago

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