I like the way that Huxley structures the totalitarian regime: If you agree with premise of prioritizing stability over all other pillars of societal arrangement, then the reasoning is valid (questionably sound premises)

E.g.

prodigious improvement on nature

is a claim full of hubris, but not categorically wrong in their society. Similarly:

the secret of virtue is liking what you’ve got to do

Like this obiously sucks if you're stripped of any agency to elect to do ~anything, but i.e. striving to be a worker among workers is good, actually.

what man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder

Thus it's easy to see how like the USSR becomes a thing.

similar gambit as Portrait of the Artists as a Young man and Flow my Tears where much of the book seems to be in the service of the dialog in the final chapters. Policeman’s tears, dialectics

God is not compatible with universal happiness

They [bolonasky twins] are the gyroscope which stabilizes the rocket plane of state. Alpha’s are only good and enjoyable with betas, epsilon-minus sacrifices (same shit as Red Rising) sheer cruelty to inflict upon the working class excessive leisure

advancement a threat to stability, thus even an enemy of the state

Plus they got that Ubik ish that make u lethargic

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