✒ Books read in 2021 #10 to #11
A short novel about a dystopian society with an utopian ideal, in which everyone is happy, everyone has what they want, yet everyone is mass produced to perform tasks which he/she was born to do, pre-conditioned to think and feel a certain way, and is fed with drugs that induce happiness and serenity. Physical needs are fulfilled completely as everybody (literally) belongs to everybody else. All desires are fulfilled, nobody wants for anything else.
The story, that was written in the 1930s, remains more than relevant today. It quite accurately anticipated the scientific advancement in reproductive technology, sleep learning, psychological manipulation and conditioning, as further discussed in The Brave New World Revisited published some 25 years later.
The reality of how technology has progressed toward such a supposedly fictitious dystopian is even more horrifying to read than the story itself.