The New Eugenics Movement - Part 1

Did the infamous novel Brave New World turn out to be an instruction manual for psychopathic scientists?

"I learnt recently that some people don’t know about the famous dystopian novel “Brave New World” written by Aldous Huxley.
One of many covers of Brave New World. Note the headline comment from Margaret Atwood, of Gilead fame. Rather than reinvent the wheel and attempt to precis the book for you I would refer you to Margaret Attwood’s review here if you’re so inclined.
Essentially, however, Brave New World was written in 1932 some 17 years before George Orwell’s "1984” to which it’s often compared. They tend to be considered equivalent competitors in the “which is the worst socialist totalitarian dystopian novel that reflects the society we are close to becoming” stakes.
To quote Attwood:
"Brave New World is either a perfect-world utopia or its nasty opposite, a dystopia, depending on your point of view: its inhabitants are beautiful, secure, and free from diseases and worries, though in a way we like to think we would find unacceptable. ‘Utopia’ is sometimes said to mean ‘no place’, from the Greek ‘O Topia’; but others derive it from ‘eu’, as in ‘eugenics’, in which case it would mean ‘healthy place’ or ‘good place’. Sir Thomas More, in his own sixteenth-century Utopia, may have been punning: utopia is the good place that doesn’t exist...
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