Brave New World - Aldous Huxley characterized
The book a picture of an absolutely stable society, but this stability is bought by radical means and totalitarian structures. While reading the book but I had to keep asking if I would not have liked to live in this world. But paying the price which a man in this system needs to exist in satisfaction (the Word "live" I think here not appropriate to be able to), is for someone who can not under this system "standardized" (of grown out of the question), was too high. The avoidance of deeper thoughts and feelings, and indoctrinated to consume of the commonly forced - no matter whether it is clothes, drugs or other people - is shocking for me, but on the other side only a slightly more pointed illustration of the / my current reality. It was only a small leap from the pleasure drug Soma in the book to my own disastrous relationship with alcohol. During the term "holiday from reality" for a Somarausch I realized that I was trying to achieve the same with alcohol. Am I really so weak that I regularly from my thoughts "leave" (- to make it sound more elegant than it is) must take? I will always have an ambivalent relationship to alcohol, so I should slowly begin to find me. A life without alcohol, would probably also a life closer to reality with all its corners and edges.
Although, or perhaps because of the gloomy perspective showing of this book, I often had to stop reading about emerging ideas to pursue. It is a strange but pleasant thought that a highly pessimistic coined a novel enhanced to reflect and to a certain spiritual force productivity. It reconciled me with my little, now ongoing for years, not exactly a positive situation and I hope I can capture that feeling and it does not disappear after a few days. This is probably the wish father to the thought, but maybe this helps Minutes to memorize the whole thing a bit better and it is not equal to displace out or forgotten. It will add to the habit in these books contributions always at least one quote and why do I end this post with a quote too: see
"real feeling of always right pathetic compared to the overcompensation for misery. And of course, provides resistance by far not such a thrilling spectacle as inconsistency. Satisfaction has nothing of the glory shine a brave fight against adversity, nothing of the quaint charm of a struggle with temptation, or a collapse due to passion or doubt. Happiness is never raised "(p. 218f)
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