Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by tomp on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:17AM
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Brave New World is meant to portray a distopia.
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by appetizer on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:30AM
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The alpha and beta classes were not living in a dystopia. Seemed quite nice. Freedom to pursue intellectual endeavors, freedom to have sex with whomever you wanted with no consequence, a life of privilege.
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by tomp on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:47AM
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Except if they wanted to use their intellect to think critically, or wanted to move anywhere beyond sex...
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by appetizer on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:37PM
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Brave New World is widely considered a dystopia, but it is an introspection and satire on existing societies, which for many people actually are dystopias. This is a separation from stories that focus on the post-apocalyptic aspects primarily to create the genre of "scifi dystopia". Therefore, viewing Brave New World as an introspection only leaves the parts of the society that I like as the part to evaluate to see an ideal segment of society, colloquially called a utopia:
- I want to be at the top of the pyramid society
- I want there to be no consequences for promiscuity
- I want a calming mind altering drug that has no side effects
- I want peace and stability to focus on my intellectual tasks
Brave New World accomplishes that.
Its not just about slavery, and I'm not sure how this analysis would even begin to comprehensively find these currently unfavorable descriptions of people.