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I decided to dedicate this post to one of my most favourite books by Aldous Huxley, called ‘Brave New World’. Our friends from Riga were visiting us this week and the other evening we had a long conversation about new technologies and conspiracy theory (which I personally do not believe in), but I found out that one guy was actually closing his video camera on his laptop and he is actually afraid that someone can easily connect to it and watch everything that is going on in his room and listen to it, too. Where all these strange phobias came from? The thought crossed my mind ‘Isn’t something that was already described in these dystopian novels? Total control. People being unable to act against set rules and the system, as a whole.’ Technologies, that at some points became a huge parts of our lives, are not controlled by us anymore.
As an extra, I’m sharing my favourite quotes from this brilliant Aldos Huxley book:
1. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
2. “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.” “All right then,” said the savage defiantly, I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
3.“Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.” There was a long silence. “I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.”
4. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
5.“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,” he added in a lower tone, “I ate my own wickedness.”