Rod Dreher Meets Aldous Huxley

I, too, waited far too long to read the dystopian classic, and, like Mr. Dreher, it "really knocking me flat" as it was "unsettling to realize how much Huxley's novel got right about the world we're now living in, and headed toward" — On finally encountering "Brave New World".

Mr. Dreher rightly suggests that "Huxley -- at least the man Huxley was when he wrote this book -- saw the Christian faith as a kind of vaccination against losing your soul to consumerism; the traditional family as a bulwark against totalitarian social engineering; and sexual libertinism not as liberating, but as a way of yielding to hidden social control."