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The community are exceptionally kind and open to Will Farnaby and show him that true happiness is found when you embrace life to the full and learn to love yourself and mankind. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. Elem, čovek je pre više od pola veka govorio o stvarima koje me trenutno veoma zanimaju, pa sam se čitajući konstantno oduševljavala govoreći u sebi "da li je moguće, pa upravo o ovom sam razmišljala juče! Apparently Old Man Huxley is overshadowed by his younger self and our rampant consumer society keeps his Brave New World evergreen, but Island remains as its counterpoint.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. The teenagers become suddenly important and bloom because they are given a chance to expand themselves, and not to be just criticised by society.That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. This book has become my personal favourite alongside such books as Great Gatsby, Great Expectations and Shantaram.

It's obvious he's trying to create a perfect world on paper--one he never had the opportunity to witness in real life. Things that Aldous and many other people said, that were seen as so audacious - they are commonsense but they were visionary because they had not yet happened.One night, when the Rani urgently sends a letter to Farnaby to meet with her, he decides to finally take a stand against the exploitation of the island by Aldehyde and Dipa, and so he ignores her letter, instead going to visit the quickly-fading Lakshmi who, surrounded by her family, finally dies. It's been a very long time since I fell so profoundly in love with a book, and it's a delicious, delightful, very spiritual experience. The brave new world is waiting just around the corner for the moment to step in and swallow this world and re-create it in its image. Pala, Huxley's fictitious South Asian island nation, is the societal equivalent of an ecosystem, the complex networks of each community rely on mutual dependence, a form of structured anarchism. The Island is plentiful in natural oil and already, power hungry capitalists are hoping to exploit this nirvana for their own dastardly ends.

Some of the side characters are caricatured, the dialogues are often witty and the hero has a self-acerbic humor. There is really so much wisdom embedded in these pages, that often this novel could be read like any piece of philosophic or religious text. There was someone very famous who wanted to do it but I had the impression that it would just be 'sex on the island'. People’ says one of the characters in this Utopian fantasy ‘are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. Whatever the precise definition of the “novel” concept might be, it certainly does not hold “Island” as its epitome.

There are so many absolutely brilliant exchanges throughout the book, but one of my favorites comes in the form of children in a field who are controlling scarecrows in an effort to protect the land. It's a really great book and whilst it is not as good as Brave New World (in my eyes at least) I would recommend it to any Huxley fans.

Pala es una "utópica" isla donde descubre una sociedad pletórica de libertad y perfección (Al menos en términos de los que Huxley consideraría como tal, supongo) Es obvio que la historia, plagada de abrumadores y enredados diálogos filosóficos, no es más que una excusa para que el autor exponga su percepción de la "felicidad" humana en base a cierta confusa espiritualidad junto a extrañas iluminaciones y su rechazo hacia ideologías como el comunismo, religiones en general y cualquier cosa que se asemeje a totalitarismos o tiranías. What I was not much of a fan of the implication that they are "improving their genetics" and their IQs. We "wanted to make the children understand that all gods are homemade, and that it’s we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours. And now, fifty years later, I read other people’s reviews here on GR and find my discontent verified objectively. In the name of this coveted harmony was built the World State with its strict regulations and its five casts and its fix-numbered population and its soma to appease any metaphysical anxiety, the perfect, brave new world where happiness was induced artificially from birth and knowledge was forbidden as dangerous.At the time of the release (1960s) many of the ideals discussed sound like they would directly appeal to the counter-culture opposing Vietnam War/Post WWII era thoughts on sex, religion, birth control, consumerism, politics, money, education, war, racism, drugs, health care, death, love, the afterlife, etc. Thirty years after, he imagines another way to reach harmony: isolation from civilisation, reinterpretation of all the values of the society, from family to economy and politics.

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