Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel — set in a pleasure-engineered society where stability is maintained through conditioning, soma, and the elimination of discomfort — the alternative dystopia to 1984 (pleasure vs. pain as control).
Creates the pleasure-engineering dystopia — Brave New World's argument (that stability can be maintained not through fear and pain like in 1984 but through pleasure, conditioning, and the elimination of discomfort) is the other foundational dystopia; Neil Postman's argument (that Brave New World's dystopia is more relevant than 1984's) became one of the most discussed media criticism ideas.
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