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Jan 1, 2023, 60 tweets

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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01. Creation. London, World State.

02. An artificial womb facility.

03. To hell with nature.

04. Humans pre-designed, segmented, pre-destined.

05. Natural processes, turned on and off. Imagine that.

06. Pre-treated to meet industrial needs.

07. Conditioned to despise nature and learning.

08. Hacked to drive the economy.

09. Education ceased to teach how to think, and finally abandoned teaching facts.

10. Jumpers for goalposts never contributed to the economy.

11. The most satanic direction of travel.

12. The breakdown in family life emboldens the state.

13. The polycule.

14. The machine turns, but is it offering anything anymore?

15. From one war to another.

16. “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” (Blaise Pascal)

17. University censorship, statues torn down, history rewritten, long-standing reading lists re-evaluated.

18. Beyond meat.

19. Heightism doesn’t seem to be tackled by the Be Kind crew any time soon.

20. The Ministry of Truth as ever in lockstep with the media.

21. Job Title salad.

22. Nose to tail, ashes to ashes.

23. Medication, narcotics, whatever gets you through the day.

24. Freedom? Subjective.

25. Chase personal pleasure, while numb.

26. Business hotel hell.

27. Young blood.

28. Birth rates tanked.

29. The grotesqueness of natural ageing.

30. PowerPoints, not motherhood.

31. Worlds apart.

32. Chemicals, processes, anything artificial.

33. The threat of intelligence and autonomy.

34. Society, addicted.

35. Science that fits the narrative only, please.

36. The enjoyment of simple tasks, frowned upon.

37. Love? The old ways incompatible with the new.

38. Shuffling people off became normalised.

39. Death – why the distress?

40. Modern life is poisonous.

41. They sought not freedom.

42. State thugs, ready with their poison.

43. So much for progress.

44. Out with the old, endless progress.

45. Safety, stability, first & last.

46. Art is dead. Fine art, music, novels.

47. An education system designed to contain.

48. Elites consolidate their position.

49. Approved science and wrong science.

50. Never waste a good war to expand emergency powers.

51. Two bald men fighting over a comb.

52. The war on religion.

53. What made us human.

54. Natural food is free from patents.

55. The desire to break free.

56. ‘Journalism’.

57. Papped.

58. Self–flagellation. Desire undimmed.

59. The side that just wants to be left alone…

60. … will be defeated.

/END

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