RFK's Soma Revolution Is Coming
RFK's Soma Revolution Is Coming Matthew Ehret In Aldous Huxley’s 1933 dystopic novel Brave New World , human society is portrayed several centuries into the future, schismed into two parallel worlds. On the one hand, Huxley portrays a ‘civilised’ society which he described in stark utopian terms of a hierarchical caste system of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Within this world, each category of human is genetically engineered to be perfectly happy and complacent with the tasks expected of them. Alphas, the top tier of the managerial caste, are themselves subdivided between Alphas and Alpha Pluses, with the latter permitted to interface with ‘The World Controllers’, of which, we are told, are ten in number. While test tube (see: CRISPR) babies have long been the only legal way of making humans, free love is rampant and is even taught to young children in primary school. In fact, in Huxley’s fantasy, if one is not practicing promiscuous sex and frequent orgies, it is a ...