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>Where on earth did you find this meme?
Someone I know IRL had been reading the Space Trilogy so I went ahead and made this meme just to amuse them. I wish I hadn't been the one to make it though, cause that would imply at least one extra person caring about that trilogy.
>I can't find hardly anyone who's read the space trilogy on these boards unfortunately.
Hear, hear. It's odd to me because Lewis is known by everyone and he didn't write that much fiction apart from Narnia and this trilogy. So you would assume everyone would be familiar with it, at least here. But that's not really the case for some reason. Once I made a thread asking if anyone else found a similarity between Weston and William Blake and I think one guy replied "yeah kinda". Might also have to do with the fact this board doesn't seem to really enjoy reading and discussing books or thinkers outside of a few /lit/core books and a few polemic authors (old Nietzsche comes to mind). Or maybe the few people who care about that space trilogy visit the board rarely. I know I do.
>if it doesn't provide hope for an escape than it tacitly supports it.
I don't know if that's the case, but looking back on the book, it is somewhat strange that Huxley had the poor savage kill himself in the end, even though said savage spent his formative years reading the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare. Just because he what, took some addy and partook in a drug-fueled orgy? Am I misremembering it? The author then went on to write a second book in which he goes over every little nook and cranny of the first, comparing his narration to the state of the art in propaganda/biology/brainwashing technology at the time, and just then just jerks himself off for a few pages going "See I was right guys... I told you guys". He sports this tone of "I lament to inform you gentlemen that we are ruined", but I don't think he lamented it that much. He's enamored with his own ability to predict disaster and he betrays it in these pages. Even then it's kind of funny because most of what he describes kind of went nowhere and is so very different from what the CIA guys started doing with LSD and pentothal when they got into that whole brainwashing deal.

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CS Lewis was a prophet. Abolition of man + That hideous strength > 1984 and brave new world.
Huxley and Orwell were in on it, especially Huxley…