“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
― Patti Smith
What a crazy, interesting world Huxley has presented us. The books and nature part is very scary to me in that it is basically happening to us now. Our technology is slowly distancing us from the beauty of nature and books are becoming used less and less. To be honest, the only reason I go out into nature is because of softball and if it wasn't for that I would probably not leave the house, which really scares me. As for books, although I really like them, others in my generation are proud of not reading any books for fun. We are constantly looking for pleasure instead of for information and knowledge, essentially what the world that Huxley created but his is obviously much more extreme. Maybe he wrote the book not only to predict but also save the future generations from this kind of society. I read and article that said "Satires tend to tire with time, but not Brave New World: It still manages to offend. Last year American librarians ranked it among the top 10 novels that readers wanted to see banned." Are we scared of being show our faults in extreme cases? Isn't ironic that we're trying to ban books, just as Huxley's society banned them?
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