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English fictionPassivity (Psychology)TotalitarianismGenetic engineeringCollectivism
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Describes the socialised horror of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom. Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, are hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries and learn by conditioning to accept their social destiny. The story develops around an unorthodox AlphaPlus, who visits a New Mexican Reservation and brings a savage back to London.
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English fictionPassivity (Psychology)TotalitarianismGenetic engineeringCollectivismFiction
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Aldous Huxley
26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
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