![]() ![]() ![]() It's intriguing to consider what reception the book would have enjoyed had its Polish predecessor not first been translated into English in 1977. His dystopian future also foresaw the human race enslaved by a happy pill, this time called soma.īrave New World was hailed by Bertrand Russell as "masterly" and was promptly banned in Ireland. Two years after the Polish work was published, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World appeared. The book, written in 1927, sees the 21st-century planet united and enslaved under Chinese rule by a pill that prevents thinking or resistance but engenders an obsession with sex. The tablet, DAVAMESK B 2, was euphemistically known as the "Murti-Bing" pill after the fictional Chinese conqueror of Europe in the book Nienasycenie by Polish author Stanislaw Witkiewicz. ![]() A book appeared in 1930 with a fascinating, haunting idea: a pill that replaces all human concerns and inner conflict with a mood of serene conformity. ![]()
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