Brave New World

by: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 0060830956

Written in 1931, as a satirical vision of a future society, Utopia. Science  creates a socially engineered society, where everything is carefully controlled for the benefit of an elite ruling class. Drugs and sexual promiscuity are used as methods of social control producing a mindless, aimless populace.  In such a society, the concepts of truth and beauty are diminished of importance.  Huxley creates a vision that questions the modern world, a world so controlled that it decays the human spirit because it strips mankind of freedom, beauty and creativity.