It's called 'brave' but the new world of euphoria comes at subtle price. It's called 'brave', in contrast to the very fear of the worship of a all-mighty pipeline god, of losing individuality and the ability of critical thinking, of self-indulgement in physical and chemical pleasue, the incapibility to confront real life.

Huxley was an old-fashioned noble, and his view came from atop. He has a vague idea of the general public, the epsilon, to be the creator of the history, by investigating the case of Hitler, from the part of Hitler himself rather than the details of the fnatic public under his command. In contrast he is more familiar with the top part of the hiarachy of political structure. He is proud of all his caplities, i.e. individuality, reason, critical thinking, endurance against temptation, all the old-fashioned (yet not outdated) virtues.

I guess such proud is shared among all bearers, and therefore the fear too. The idea only grew over the decades came forth. It's funny to note all of such fear to exist in 1931, (and 1958) even before the time of the Nazi and the Soviets. We can now proclaim those failed trials of governing, but the shadow never expires.

We have seen the pipeline way of production to became the standard procedure of mass production. People do not yet call Ford a God, but the principle of pipeline production, organized hiarachy structure, divisity of labor to their 'suitable' job as if they were unconcious machine made of meat, i.e. human resource, is no less than an industrial bible.

We have seen abundant cases of mass propaganda, inciting public outrages for political gains. It works so well, to the extent of any individual in disagree would soon find themslves in a lonely position.

We have seen public entertianment and porn became so cheap, so readily accessible, and one would almost certainly agree that a lot of those do not cause addiction. Carefully caliberated algorithms via data science and math modeling knows better than people themslves of what they would indulge to.

We, are the lucky residents of the brave new world. We, built ourselves the brave new world, because most of the people love it.

Karl Marx would never have imagined the misery of the cruel capitalism has such a happy solution. He speaks for the general public, the delta and the epsilon, and he believes they have the capbility to confront their real life misery. This is partly ture I guess, only when these people are put into some very unfortunate positions. They are otherwise happy builders of the brave new world.

People call the book a anti-utophia sci-fiction, yet I would call it a satire of modern social development. The insight was truely marvalous. Unfortunately, it did not came with a solution. It depicts the world as is, with one of its most sinificant features: stability. It's gonna stay like this for a very long time since all parts of the society found themselves a stable position.

Of course nothing lasts forever, and we can assume the stability will not last forever for certain.

One of the most important thing to avoid the brave new world, would be the individuality and ability of critical thinking of the general public. These were necessary byproducts for a industrial society, and we have yet seen a limit of it. Huxley proclaimed such a society made entirely of alpha would be unstable due to internal fight over each other, this could happen - but I am not describing a world with pure alphas. The internal class would almost cerntainly persist, yet the absolute capability of critical thinking does not have limits. Or do they?

People have developed large language models more capable of the epsilon. The track to the brave new world has aleady deviated away. This also marks the introduction of a new variable, that the llm could (almost certainly, and soon) surpass the general public in the level of capability of critical thinking.

I tend to believe we are more close to the dawn of a robot society as depicted by Azimov, rather than an unltimate brave new world. They would have to blend, of course.