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There was a reason why Huxley picked an insecure religious fundamentalist with a fondness for self-flagellation and fear of his own sexuality to contrast with the Brave New World. And it wasn't because he identified with him.

The satire is of the relentless drive towards excess, which Huxley saw epitomised in America's nascent consumerist culture and the drive to industrialization it was serving. The reason why it keeps coming back to the relentless sex and drugs isn't because Huxley then thought sex and drugs were bad, it's because he though any sane authoritarian regime would give the people the distractions they wanted most.

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