From: fun@thingy.apana.org.au (David Gerard) Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.gothic] Re: Brave New World, a post in defense of it. Date: 8 Sep 1998 14:27:56 GMT Subject: Re: Brave New World, a post in defense of it. From: Neal Stanifer Newsgroups: alt.gothic Jealousy wrote: > > I personally, see a near perfection of human living in > BNW, as opposed to the style the western world (and most of the rest of > it) > lives in presently, and certainly that of 1984. <> a bunch of point-by-point and cogent defense of a book that gave me the dribbling shits in junior high school, and still scares me into hair-pulling fits today when I see it coming true, bit by bit, in a consumer-crazed US. Oh yeah? Well you can have your perfection, Jealousy, and I will stick with mine. I am speaking of a literary vision which is so compelling, so true, and so powerful that it speaks to the soul. I am speaking of a work of true genius. How this book -- my bible, my talmud, my quran -- has not been taken up as a blueprint for perfection, I don't know. I am speaking of course (as if you didn't already know) of _Green Eggs and Ham_ by the prophet himself, Theodore Seuss Geizel. Think about it. How often do we pass up great things simply out of pride and a deluded feeling that we are being done TO rather than done FOR? Sure Sam-I-Am employs all the tactics of the hard-salesman, sure he hounds his mark and makes a general clinging, ubiquitous pest of himself. What of it? The Green Eggs and Ham are GOOOOOD! And they would have been so much better before they got cold and wet and hard and full of food-borne illness, wouldn't they? Think how much trouble and time the mark could have saved himself if he had just been a good consumer and... well... consumed in a timely and obedient manner. What use is freedom? What use is choice? The salesman knows what is best for us, and we should do as we are told. Like the big guy in Blues Traveller says, "I know that no matter what the waitress brings/ I should drink it and always be full." Stop thinking... Start buying. Buy now and avoid the rush. Freedom is just another product offered for sale. Read _Green Eggs and Ham_ as it was truly intended... as a visionary primer for living in a consumer society. You can read it with a nun, you can read it in the sun. Now, I have to go try out my new vaccuum.