[smallerdemon]

"These effortless pleasures, these ready-made distractions that are the same for every one over the face of the whole Western world, are surely a worse menace to our civilization than ever the Germans were."

Well... this aged like fine milk in retrospect to what was coming 20 years down the line.

[zer00eyz]

Considering how complacent everyone got in the interwar period about what was going on... I dont think any one at that point in time thought they would do it all over again, 20 years later, with Germany.

[tryauuum]

This aged fine. Any war eventually ends but the stream of "the effortless pleasures" will be present in each day

[mantas]

It aged very well looking at what was coming 100 years down the line.

[bee_rider]

Eh, is it a matter of aging? WW1 would be fresh in people’s minds… it seems like a bad quote then, too. I bet, for example, any reader who’d been in a trench for a week long bombardment would take the record player instead.

It seems like a surprisingly weak essay, from an otherwise pretty thoughtful guy.

[randomburner99]

Incorrect on multiple grounds, the first being that the Nazis were in part a reaction against the kind of society that Huxley sees developing.