I still to this day thinks that this novel surpassed The Hunger Games and 1984 in terms of dystopian genre.
The novel itself potrayed a lot of symbolism to our current modern world uniquely and more stronger than the other books.
Why isn’t it being discuss in the same level as hunger games or 1984? I’ve seen countless memes about 1984 than I do for the Brave New World.
It’s not that dystopian.
The world seems pretty good. Overpopulation problem is solved. And everyone seems generally happy.
Even dissidents are simply sent to islands to hang out
No this is a valid point. The world of Brave New world is surprisingly chill for dissidents, at least the higher status male ones. That’s actually one of the more interesting points of discussion about it.
I do disagree on one thing, it IS a dystopia. At least academically, the most useful definition of a dystopia is an attempted utopia that went wrong, and the interesting discussions under that framework are often, who is the utopia for, and who is it not for? Is there a way to create a utopia that works for everyone, or will the attempt always result in some form of dystopia? When do cultural practices (or brainwashing) to make people happy and content cross the line into dystopia? That’s the good shit.
What went wrong?
It seems to be Sustainable and working just fine with pretty much everyone being happy vast majority of the time.