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May 07, 2004

God Technology, I'll Do Anything for You.

A few years ago, one of the networks did a great adaptation of Brave New World. The movie diverts from the book a bit, but in the final scenes the Savage speaks with the controller, Mustapha Mond, about the degree of social control and engineering imposed upon the civilized world. The Savage thinks the civilized world is too sterile and devoid of meaning. The exchange in the adaption is even better than the book:

Mond: "...All great art really grows out of passion, conflict, social instability, and we don't have any of that anymore. People are happy."

Savage: "Happy at what cost?"

Mond: "At the cost of art, religion, philosophy, love, science..."

Bernard Marx: "Science? But we've been conditioned to believe that science is everything."

Mond: "Not true science, Bernard, just technology that serves the public order. Increase consumption, prevent dissatisfaction."

Posted by chris at May 7, 2004 10:08 AM

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