Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Now I need some Soma so that I don't have to think about this book too much. Big personal problem is that I recognize the value of the ordered society as presented, and sympathize with its leaders. The society, after all, has safety valves - who among us today hasn't wished for a desert island life at one point or another..... 

The enforced cruelty to the savage seemed somewhat uncharacteristic of the Brave New World. They didn't seem to need to make a horrible example of anyone anywhere else in the book. Would the novel have lost too much of its edge to resolve the story in a non-destructive way? Perhaps they have a surplus of Soma to consume in removing the suicide from the consciousness of those involved? Anyway it's only a book.....

Would I really like to live in the Brave New World - with all its order and planning? And live in a society where human aspirations are supplanted by bioengineering and imposed pre-destination? Isn't sin defined as rebellion against God? If we rebel against God so thoroughly, how could we subject ourselves to mere humans? For all the bad in the world - God still granted us free will - He must have known the implications. Perhaps victory is in the choice? And the greatest sin in disallowing the choice? Is that the message from the Brave New World?