Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

There is a book that along with the classic George Orwell's 1984 is the epitome of dystopian futures literature. In a world where all ethics and morals have given to the interests of the state, monogamy is prohibited and purposefully consume psychotropic called soma (which swallowed relieves any anxiety or mental agitation) is a civic duty, our protagonist Bernard Marx is born, an outsider in the world where he lived.

Marx, because of a problem with the incubator machine where he was born, have a mind too sharp to be adaptable to domestication that the state exercises over its people. Highlights the fact that apparently the intelligence has led Marx to develop an ethical system of beliefs which prevent you from living fully with their neighbor. Looking around, he realizes that all his fellows are being brutalized by sex, wild sports and vice, which thus do not develop a critical awareness and to fulfill their role of engagement in the great machinery is this society that Huxley raised. This clarity of mind contrasts sharply with the dull minds of Lenina Crowne, a girl whose promiscuity and poor judgment show that is one of the best and strongest links in the chain dystopian Huxley conceived.

In this society, all individuals are designed before his birth and natural reproduction is prohibited determinedly are germinated in a kind of giant incubator where they were given nutrients and chemicals needed to develop the skills that correspond to their caste. For example, a delta should be more robust and disciplined but also must have a temperament that allows you to obey the orders of a beta less race that takes care of administrative tasks and management of the state.

If you are in the college, you must be political active and this will be one of your favorites. This book could be considered the legitimate predecessor of the comic by Alan Moore "V for Vendetta" and the Matrix saga. It is said that Huxley wrote after recovering from the Great Depression that engulfed after being disillusioned with Soviet totalitarianism, whose excesses had come to condemn socialism to a slow, pathetic death throes. Highly recommended to have a good weekend at home and get to think about what happens when people become ignorant, whether out of conviction or convenience.

Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence.

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