I’m writing this entry really really fast, so if I don’t make since.. deal with it. Lol. It’s for me anyways, not you. Haha.
I love reading! It's my passion next to playing the piano. I have an active imagination that seems to only be fed by fiction. My favorite book of all time since High School is Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. I was one of those nerds in high school who actually liked the assigned books, with the exception of some of that Brit Lit written in old English (Like La Morte D'Aurthur and Beowulf). I would however like to give the Canterbury Tales a second chance.
Anyways I've read Brave New World so many times and marked it up so that my original copy literally disintegrated a few months ago. I’m rather in love with the subject of genetic engineering, a big part of the book. And it’s also really cool to see how Huxley wrote this book in the early 1930s, yet some of this stuff is actually not only starting to happen, but actually starting to become socially acceptable. For example in the book, it is highly encouraged from a very young age to experiment sexually with peers, any emotional attachment, monogamy, relationship totally is unheard of. (Crazy, right). Not just sexual relationships either, in fact the idea of families, love, and passion for each other is simply unheard of as well. I can’t help but notice that slowly occurring in our currently everyday lives as families spend less and less time together, mom and dad split up, get remarried and you have all these new different tangles and knots in your family tree. Who belongs to whom, and to what extent? And people develop more of’ relationship’ if you would call it to their technology than with actual other physical human beings. What’s even cooler to see transcend from the book into today is growing populatirity of the ‘hook-up culture’ starting to make it permissible for umm, how do you say it ‘friends with benefits’ and one-night-stands. Interesting? To me, yes
The book also deals with totalitarianism, collectivism, and surprisingly the idea of happiness hmmm…
Anyways here’s my new favorite quote from the book. I’m not going give any contextual information, on purpose, think about what it means to you!
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesquesness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
I love reading! It's my passion next to playing the piano. I have an active imagination that seems to only be fed by fiction. My favorite book of all time since High School is Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. I was one of those nerds in high school who actually liked the assigned books, with the exception of some of that Brit Lit written in old English (Like La Morte D'Aurthur and Beowulf). I would however like to give the Canterbury Tales a second chance.
Anyways I've read Brave New World so many times and marked it up so that my original copy literally disintegrated a few months ago. I’m rather in love with the subject of genetic engineering, a big part of the book. And it’s also really cool to see how Huxley wrote this book in the early 1930s, yet some of this stuff is actually not only starting to happen, but actually starting to become socially acceptable. For example in the book, it is highly encouraged from a very young age to experiment sexually with peers, any emotional attachment, monogamy, relationship totally is unheard of. (Crazy, right). Not just sexual relationships either, in fact the idea of families, love, and passion for each other is simply unheard of as well. I can’t help but notice that slowly occurring in our currently everyday lives as families spend less and less time together, mom and dad split up, get remarried and you have all these new different tangles and knots in your family tree. Who belongs to whom, and to what extent? And people develop more of’ relationship’ if you would call it to their technology than with actual other physical human beings. What’s even cooler to see transcend from the book into today is growing populatirity of the ‘hook-up culture’ starting to make it permissible for umm, how do you say it ‘friends with benefits’ and one-night-stands. Interesting? To me, yes
The book also deals with totalitarianism, collectivism, and surprisingly the idea of happiness hmmm…
Anyways here’s my new favorite quote from the book. I’m not going give any contextual information, on purpose, think about what it means to you!
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesquesness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
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