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Which author wrote the 1932 novel 'Brave New World,' which imagined a future society pacified through pleasure rather than fear?
Answer
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley published 'Brave New World' in 1932, envisioning a civilization kept docile through comfort, consumerism, and a euphoria-inducing drug rather than through violent oppression.
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Aldous Huxley predicted in Brave New World that people would be controlled not by force but pleasure and pharmaceutical distraction—now studied by neuroscientists.
Other options people guess
- George Orwell
- Ray Bradbury
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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- brave-new-world
- aldous-huxley
- 20th-century
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