Brave New World

A re-read of this very prescient genre classic. I don't think there's much to be said about Brave New World that hasn't been said already, apart from that I enjoyed it a lot less this time around, though Huxley's ideas on death conditioning are bang on, and something that western society has still not done enough to deal with.

“Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course.”

Let's do it.