7/8/2023 0 Comments Brave new world 1998Axioms of the new thinking (“Everyone belongs to everyone else,” “When the individual feels, the community reels”) are constantly piped into public places, reinforcing the social agenda.īernard Marx (Peter Gallagher) and Lenina Crowne (Rya Kihlstedt) have been seeing each other beyond the accepted one-night stand, drawing the suspicion and scorn of their peers. Monogamy is antisocial, and the nighttime is devoted to promiscuous pursuits at bars where the feel-good drug soma is consumed in mass quantities. The upper-echelon Alphas are committed to the pursuit of pleasure and looking good (the gyms where they work out on machines aren’t all that different from today’s exercise emporia). Telepic does a terrific job of creating the immaculate high-tech metropolis where citizens - stratified into Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta classes - efficiently serve the government.
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