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Pala es una "utópica" isla donde descubre una sociedad pletórica de libertad y perfección (Al menos en términos de los que Huxley consideraría como tal, supongo) Es obvio que la historia, plagada de abrumadores y enredados diálogos filosóficos, no es más que una excusa para que el autor exponga su percepción de la "felicidad" humana en base a cierta confusa espiritualidad junto a extrañas iluminaciones y su rechazo hacia ideologías como el comunismo, religiones en general y cualquier cosa que se asemeje a totalitarismos o tiranías. Here, Aldous Huxley imagines a utopian society and the threat that encroachment from the outside world presents to it. Will Farnaby , the protagonist is a deranged, self-loathing, confused journalist who finds himself a survivor of a shipwreck and is welcomed into the utopian land of Pala. And sure enough, shortly after he died, Laura received a personal message, to whit: go to the main bookshelf, third row from bottom, and take the second book from the right. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

The kingdom has no military and its inhabitants have cultivated a nearly utopian society by blending the most applicable elements from western science and eastern Mahayana Buddhism, also adopting a multiple-parents child-rearing strategy of mutual adoption clubs (MACs), as well as a bilingual culture of English and Palanese.I am not a very spiritual person but I agree that there is a psychological component when it comes to such things as healing, for example. Although the book is strongly didactic I was surprised to find myself moved - not to the edge of my seat, the philosophy of the book teaches us not to be slaves to such transitory passions, but moved all the same. Ten pages from the end, sitting at a bar, the bartender asked me: "Are you one of those people who reads the last sentence of a book before they start it, to see if it'll live up to your expectations? A book is an invitation into an author's life and in this case we can transit from a mental world transfixed by industrialisation and maintaining consumption societies to one frightened of over population, and environmental destruction. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there.

It's a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human condition and a vision of a more harmonious world. The nightmares of his Brave New World are put to one side (to resurfaAlthough it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.

It's a counterpoint to Brave New World in quite a few ways: ideology (utopia, not dystopia); plot (little to none); theme (potential, not despair); drug amiability (lots). It seems to me both novels develop, in different ways, the same thesis: that mankind cannot stay beauty. Laura Archera Huxley, Aldous' second wife, wrote a stunningly candid biographical study of their life together amid the coolly intellectual ambience of their South California Hollywood home. The theme is pure Huxley: intelligent, open-minded man gets shipwrecked on a remote tropical island where the native population has managed to create a utopia. The Island is plentiful in natural oil and already, power hungry capitalists are hoping to exploit this nirvana for their own dastardly ends.followed, after a positive response, by "Do you think it might be amusing to travel to Yuma and get married at the Drive-In? Professor Preobrazhensky said that the devastation is in the heads, but there are also neuroses, aggression, immoderate thoughtless consumerism. For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation.

First, because it simply isn’t possible for Pala to go on being different from the rest of the world. This book took me a long time to get through because I could never sit down and read a hundred pages- I had to have breaks.As an only child, I never wanted a sibling, but always wished that my family was closer to our neighbors. The plot never really progresses, the characters possess no reality, and the religion is flakey and half-baked. I saw a gif the other day of a woman stepping out of her house only to see government buildings exploding in front of her in a scene out of the 1996 film "Independence Day.