Reaction to Brave New World, Revisited

Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley was (to me) a very interesting and thought provoking work of literary genius.  Huxley was able to analyze his previous book and work of fiction, Brave New World and pick it apart, showing how each part of the book relates to real life.  These astonishing comparisons Huxley makes between his science fiction novels and real life, show that we just might be headed towards our version of Brave New World.  Through is many pints and arguments, I felt that at the core of it all, Huxley was a minimalist.  Huxley both advocates against a conglomerate of a government and an actual conglomerate governing the people.  Big government and over organization will cause the death of individualism as will big corporations, should they have a heavy hand in government, pulling the strings as a puppeteer with his puppet.  Huxley advocates against letting a mass group of people become your identity.  He compares how Hitler mesmerized hordes and hordes of German people with his vehemently loud speeches that made the weakest of Germans want to fight, to the hordes of people blindly following each other in Brave New World to the whims of the government and soma.  Huxley says that one can lose their sense of individualism in a crowd, their sense of self being, in a crowd everyone melds together to work towards a common goal.  Now I don’t think Huxley hated big crowds, I just think he was saying that it is important for our well being and future as free people that we retain or sense of individualism and realize that we d have a say, we have opinions, they matter, and they can change the world.  If I had to agree 100% with Aldous Huxley on a point, it’d have to be his avocation for education.  I think that it is vital to our survival that we educate our future generations on the teachings of Huxley as well as other various great minds.  All that Huxley said about big government, big business, and individualism needs to be taught to our youth.  It is imperative we educate them; otherwise they will blindly follow every merchandise candidate who makes empty promises.