Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The perfect world

When I was 15 I came across the book from Aldous Huxley "The brave new world", first I thought I would get bored with his old writting style, at least the version I had in my hands was quite old from my grandpa, I read it and it caused a great impact at the time and this feeling was dissolving along time, as I grow older I can not but to compare some characters in Huxley´s novel including myself, I so often feel like the savage brought to the brave world and expose to certain refinements in this new upgraded society, with a blue pill to relieve any kind of negative feeling, music made from machines and not instruments, luckely we still have the family concept in this world of ours, perhaps a very old yet human structure that is the key to happiness according to forbes survey for the 10 countries were you can achieve more money, at the end they closed the article saying that money does not equal happiness and that on the contrary the countries were people consider themself happier are the ones were the family plays a central role in individuals,
perhaps Huxley was right and the scence of our humanity lies in the simplest of things that we take for granted and that in this fast world seems so archaic and decadent

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