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The Book Club: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with Sen. Ted Cruz

The Book Club

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Huxley's Brave New World

Huxley wrote Brave New World about 17, 18 years before George Orwell. Huxley assails the idea that we are just built to consume and consume and consume with nothing else in this wonderful stasis of having our appetites assuaged. This superficiality is what takes it from a scary dystopian book to really, really a great book," he says.

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