Huxley's Brave New World was a set text at college in the 70's. Since then I think they had us read the wrong book. His novel Island is the flip side of Brave New World. Set on a remote Island of Pala where the inhabitants have created a utopia by barring Missionaries, Arms dealers and Indiscriminate heavy industrial development. fusing Hindu and Buddhism thinking tey have no need for the consumerism of "civilisation'
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Huxley's Brave New World was a set text at college in the 70's. Since then I think they had us read the wrong book.
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fusing Hindu and Buddhism thinking tey have no need for the consumerism of "civilisation'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(novel)