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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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01. Creation. London, World State. ImageImage
02. An artificial womb facility. ImageImageImage
03. To hell with nature. ImageImageImage
04. Humans pre-designed, segmented, pre-destined. Image
05. Natural processes, turned on and off. Imagine that. Image
06. Pre-treated to meet industrial needs. Image
07. Conditioned to despise nature and learning. ImageImage
08. Hacked to drive the economy. ImageImageImage
09. Education ceased to teach how to think, and finally abandoned teaching facts. Image
10. Jumpers for goalposts never contributed to the economy. Image
11. The most satanic direction of travel. Image
12. The breakdown in family life emboldens the state. Image
13. The polycule. ImageImageImageImage
14. The machine turns, but is it offering anything anymore? Image
15. From one war to another. Image
16. β€œAll of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” (Blaise Pascal) ImageImageImage
17. University censorship, statues torn down, history rewritten, long-standing reading lists re-evaluated. ImageImageImage
18. Beyond meat. Image
19. Heightism doesn’t seem to be tackled by the Be Kind crew any time soon. Image
20. The Ministry of Truth as ever in lockstep with the media. Image
21. Job Title salad. ImageImage
22. Nose to tail, ashes to ashes. Image
23. Medication, narcotics, whatever gets you through the day. Image
24. Freedom? Subjective. ImageImage
25. Chase personal pleasure, while numb. Image
26. Business hotel hell. Image
27. Young blood. ImageImage
28. Birth rates tanked. ImageImageImage
29. The grotesqueness of natural ageing. ImageImage
30. PowerPoints, not motherhood. Image
31. Worlds apart. Image
32. Chemicals, processes, anything artificial. Image
33. The threat of intelligence and autonomy. ImageImage
34. Society, addicted. ImageImage
35. Science that fits the narrative only, please. Image
36. The enjoyment of simple tasks, frowned upon. Image
37. Love? The old ways incompatible with the new. ImageImage
38. Shuffling people off became normalised. ImageImage
39. Death – why the distress? Image
40. Modern life is poisonous. Image
41. They sought not freedom. ImageImageImageImage
42. State thugs, ready with their poison. ImageImage
43. So much for progress. Image
44. Out with the old, endless progress. ImageImage
45. Safety, stability, first & last. ImageImage
46. Art is dead. Fine art, music, novels. Image
47. An education system designed to contain. ImageImage
48. Elites consolidate their position. ImageImageImage
49. Approved science and wrong science. ImageImageImageImage
50. Never waste a good war to expand emergency powers. Image
51. Two bald men fighting over a comb. Image
52. The war on religion. ImageImage
53. What made us human. ImageImage
54. Natural food is free from patents. Image
55. The desire to break free. Image
56. β€˜Journalism’. Image
57. Papped. Image
58. Self–flagellation. Desire undimmed. ImageImage
59. The side that just wants to be left alone… Image
60. … will be defeated.

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