Yes, that's I referred to as conditioning by pulp-drama. For whatever reason, all triumph must be the modification of " stable community life" from one point of stable equilibrium to another.
But if the real point is that stable community-life is fundamentally incompatible with the individuation process, the only real triumph is for the individual to leave the society or to find an enclave within (or at least on the periphery of) the society that allows true human flourishing. The triumph is essentially rejecting comfort and stability in favor of the highs and lows of being a true, unique person.
Huxley himself seems to suggest this much in Brave New World: Revisited: "Over-population and over-organization have produced the modern metropolis, in which a fully human life of multiple personal relationships has become almost impossible. Therefore, if you wish to avoid the spiritual impoverishment of individuals and whole societies, leave the metropolis and revive the small country community, or alternately humanize the metropolis by creating within its network of mechanical organization the urban equivalents of small country communities, in which individuals can meet and cooperate as complete persons, not as the mere embodiments of specialized functions."
Thus, for Bernard to find a community of others who are "complete persons" and flourish would be the real triumph in this book. Not our socially conditioned way of viewing triumph, which is essentially a brief interlude between points of comfortable stability (i.e. evil society -moment of conflict- and happily ever after new 'good' society with the common denominator of stability between each).
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Re: Bernard
Date: 2017-10-18 06:27 pm (UTC)But if the real point is that stable community-life is fundamentally incompatible with the individuation process, the only real triumph is for the individual to leave the society or to find an enclave within (or at least on the periphery of) the society that allows true human flourishing. The triumph is essentially rejecting comfort and stability in favor of the highs and lows of being a true, unique person.
Huxley himself seems to suggest this much in Brave New World: Revisited: "Over-population and over-organization have produced the modern metropolis, in which a fully human life of multiple personal relationships has become almost impossible. Therefore, if you wish to avoid the spiritual impoverishment of individuals and whole societies, leave the metropolis and revive the small country community, or alternately humanize the metropolis by creating within its network of mechanical organization the urban equivalents of small country communities, in which individuals can meet and cooperate as complete persons, not as the mere embodiments of specialized functions."
Thus, for Bernard to find a community of others who are "complete persons" and flourish would be the real triumph in this book. Not our socially conditioned way of viewing triumph, which is essentially a brief interlude between points of comfortable stability (i.e. evil society -moment of conflict- and happily ever after new 'good' society with the common denominator of stability between each).