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His clever and sardonic criticism of his contemporaries lays bare the futility and immorality of a social class which seeks oblivion in pleasure. Huxley was an eloquent interpreter of the feverish mood of the Twenties. ![]() 1ġThe philosophy of meaninglessness is the essence of Huxley’s early novels, of those witty and merciless satires in which he exposes the spiritual disease of the post-war generation. There was one admirably simple method of confusing these people and at the same time justifying ourselves in our political and erotic revolt: we could deny that the world had any meaning whatsoever. The supporters of these systems claimed that in some way they embodied the meaning of the world. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom we objected to the political and economic system because it was unjust. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. 273.įor myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. ![]()
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