Goodreads Review:
I prefer Brave New World to 1984. The story is much more gripping than Orwell's classic. That said, the "resisted" part of the book seemed a bit too-self congratulatory. Huxley's analysis and emphasis on over-population sort of overwhelms his message at times. However, his critique of Big Business and Big Government controlling too much power and influence for a democracy to thrive in is prophetic and his notions of a non-violent totalitarian state seems entirely plausible in the early 21st century.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Can Man live without God - Chapter 3
(Originally written September 14, 2005 in Book 1)
Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias
1994
Chapter 3 - The Mad Man Arrives
Auschwitz survivor Victor Frank: "If we present man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present him as an automation of reflexes, as a mind machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drive and reactions, as a mere product of heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone. I became acquainted, with the the last stage of corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment - or, as the Nazis liked to say, 'of blood and soil'. I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers" (Zacharias, 25).
As America removes the 10 Commandments from the constitution, we are setting the tables fore the rise of "sophisticated and elite" ideologies that will pave the way for another Hitler. This is the child of antitheism and materialism.
Aldous Huxley:
"I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently, I assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. It is our own will that decides how and upon what subjects we shall use our intelligence. Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason to another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless".
Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias
1994
Chapter 3 - The Mad Man Arrives
Auschwitz survivor Victor Frank: "If we present man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present him as an automation of reflexes, as a mind machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drive and reactions, as a mere product of heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone. I became acquainted, with the the last stage of corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment - or, as the Nazis liked to say, 'of blood and soil'. I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers" (Zacharias, 25).
As America removes the 10 Commandments from the constitution, we are setting the tables fore the rise of "sophisticated and elite" ideologies that will pave the way for another Hitler. This is the child of antitheism and materialism.
Aldous Huxley:
"I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently, I assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. It is our own will that decides how and upon what subjects we shall use our intelligence. Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason to another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless".
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