Monday 27 July 2009

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, in the novel Brave New World, predicted a social order in which everyone would have a rank, and all would be content, without envy.

At the top would be the Alphas, the ruling elite, followed by Betas and Gammas.
The bottom of the ladder were Epsilons, brute labourers.

To Huxley, this vision would be a dystopia.