Never Let Me Go 6

"Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,

Kiss the girls and make them One.

Boys at one with girls at peace;

Orgy-porgy gives release."

pg 84

...Really? I get that Huxley is juxtaposing this world with our World as much as he can, but must it be so sick? All of this drug and orgy talk got me to thinking, when was this book written? 1932. I was expecting the Woodstock days. However, I suppose that the agonizing days of the Vietnam War were just as depressing as The Great Depression of the thirties. Huxley, in his sick and twisted way, escapes the economic disaster by writing about the juxtaposition of disaster, which, in his mind, is apparently drugs and sex.... without emotion. I understand Huxley's fantasy to eliminate all emotion because the only emotions of the Depression were negative. Digging a little deeper, I now love the author. Huxley was born into a prominent family, but advocated  the use of psychodelics, a hallucinogen. Mix that with his pacifism (anti-war and violence) and his love for parapsycholgy (human interaction that cannot be explained by science) and right there is the premise of this book. Brave New World is a trippy book trying to eliminate all negative interactions by doing something that the real world has never thought of doing. Thank you wikipedia!