September 18, 2008 · 1 min
Huxley’s 3rd Alternative
I stumbled across a blog whose title and approach intrigue me: http://hux3alt.wordpress.com/
The URL comes from Aldous Huxley’s preface to the 2nd edition of Brave New World, written perhaps 15 years after the original book came out:
If I were to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative. Between the utopian and the primitive horns of his dilemma would lie the possibility of sanity - a possibility already actualised, to some extent, in a community of exiles and refugees from the Brave New World, living within the borders of the Reservation. In this community economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and co-operative. … a society composed of freely co-operating individuals devoted to the pursuit of sanity. Thus altered, Brave New World would have possess an artistic and … a philosophical completeness, which in its present form it evidently lacks.
The blogger is off to a good start, and I look forward to reading more!