In this way he may be able to tell, not indeed the whole truth (for the whole truth about almost any important subject is incompatible with brevity), but considerably more than the dangerous quarter-truths and half-truths which have always been the current coin of thought. He must learn to concentrate upon the essentials of a situation, but without ignoring too many of reality's qualifying side issues. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day. He must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. Abbreviation is a necessary evil and the abbreviator's business is to make the best of a job which, though intrinsically bad, is still better than nothing. Brave New World Revisited (1958) 132 pages - When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. In practice we are generally forced to choose between an unduly brief exposition and no exposition at all. In 1958, Aldous Huxley published a collection of essays on the same social, political, and economic themes he had explored earlier in his novel Brave New World.Although the form differs the work is nonfiction instead of fiction Huxley's characteristic intelligence and wit enlivens the essays of Brave New World Revisited just as it did in his novel. But life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.
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