Brave New World Deconstruction: Part 10 Abuse

I'm thankful to Huxley for one thing about Chapter 8. In this chapter we get a few quick glimpses of John's life in the Pueblo. It looks at the culture that is a mishmash of various cultures and one with a lack of what we, today or in Huxley's time, would consider advanced technology. It would have been very easy for Huxley to present us with the "Simpler Time" narrative.

You know how the trope goes. The "Simpler Time" wherein people were better to each other, more neighborly. They might not have had all our gadgets, but they really cared about each other and they would never...

Except... here... no.
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