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Re:Mother by allochthon on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @11:03PM (#7061601)
this has to be the most overtly Huxleyan branding I've seen on a consumer product

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for the product they're selling, which is both cool and odd in a 1984 kind of way.

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Re:Mother by mmanfrin on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:47AM (#7062295)
1984 was Orwell. Huxley was Brave New World.
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Re:Mother by sneak on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:21AM (#7063152)
Also, it seemed to me that the dichotomy set up in BNW is that "natural is good and right, artificial or new is bad" - one that has soured me on Huxley basically since when I first read it.
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Re:Mother by romaniv on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @11:10AM (#7064120)
The author commented on that in his foreword of later editions of the book. He said something along the lines that if he was writing the novel later in his life, the dichotomy wouldn't be as pointed.
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