The Emerging Brave New World.

PositionBrief article - Book review

Glessner, Thomas. The Emerging Brave New World. Crane, Missouri: Anomalos Publishing House, 2008; www.anomalospublishing.com.

In his classic novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley wrote of a future where human beings are manipulated, abused, and even killed for the perceived good of society. Huxley envisioned a future where human life is cheapened and easily disposed of for the benefit of a controlling elite. Christian philosopher C. S. Lewis referred to such an elite as "men without chests." Indeed, in such a brave new world, humanity itself is redefined to allow for the elimination of those deemed inferior.

The author writes of the gradual dehumanization of human beings that has invaded American culture and has accelerated at a frightening pace since the 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade. The subsequent dehumanization of unborn human...

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