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<blockquote data-quote="TANSTAAFL" data-source="post: 4175381" data-attributes="member: 27098"><p>Actually many books here that I have never heard of! Thank you for posting. I do have a few suggestions as well:</p><p></p><p>"Ominous Parallels" It's not fiction and somewhat of a difficult read, a scholarly assessment of what is going on now or may eventually happen. </p><p></p><p>I have seen two others mentioned and current politics and tech seem to agree, "Animal Farm" and "1984." I agree with that.</p><p></p><p>Here's a wildcard, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Some mental gymnastics are required though. In the book every child is a test tube baby, decanted instead of born. Women who give birth are frowned upon. There is the high tech cities and reservations outside of them, were the "savages" are outliers, women give birth, the fathers have a role in the family and family relationships are important. The Alpha's are given the best of everything, they are nurtured from the moment they are conceived in a factory and in schooling. An underclass of Delta's and Epsilons are purposely bred to be "dumb" enjoy hard work to provide menial labor. This is done in our education system now, where our Alphas get the best of everything after graduating Harvard or Yale, while inner city youth and others are given poor education in many instances right from the start. Another element of the book that holds true, SOMA, a euphoric drug used to control the populace. The Alpha's use it for recreation only, the Delta's and Epsilons are controlled with it. The Parallel could be Marijuana and THC, or even anti depressants or other drugs. Essentially there are two classes in the modern society, The Alpha's and Beta's who get the nicest of everything, and the gamma's and epsilons that get the worst, with the "savages" on reservations living in general squaller. Like Soma, sex is used to placate people with no consequences, no children, no families.</p><p></p><p>"Brave New World" is a great dystopian novel, even though they do have flying cars, it does have many parallels to what is occurring today and what the WEF is trying to "create."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TANSTAAFL, post: 4175381, member: 27098"] Actually many books here that I have never heard of! Thank you for posting. I do have a few suggestions as well: "Ominous Parallels" It's not fiction and somewhat of a difficult read, a scholarly assessment of what is going on now or may eventually happen. I have seen two others mentioned and current politics and tech seem to agree, "Animal Farm" and "1984." I agree with that. Here's a wildcard, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Some mental gymnastics are required though. In the book every child is a test tube baby, decanted instead of born. Women who give birth are frowned upon. There is the high tech cities and reservations outside of them, were the "savages" are outliers, women give birth, the fathers have a role in the family and family relationships are important. The Alpha's are given the best of everything, they are nurtured from the moment they are conceived in a factory and in schooling. An underclass of Delta's and Epsilons are purposely bred to be "dumb" enjoy hard work to provide menial labor. This is done in our education system now, where our Alphas get the best of everything after graduating Harvard or Yale, while inner city youth and others are given poor education in many instances right from the start. Another element of the book that holds true, SOMA, a euphoric drug used to control the populace. The Alpha's use it for recreation only, the Delta's and Epsilons are controlled with it. The Parallel could be Marijuana and THC, or even anti depressants or other drugs. Essentially there are two classes in the modern society, The Alpha's and Beta's who get the nicest of everything, and the gamma's and epsilons that get the worst, with the "savages" on reservations living in general squaller. Like Soma, sex is used to placate people with no consequences, no children, no families. "Brave New World" is a great dystopian novel, even though they do have flying cars, it does have many parallels to what is occurring today and what the WEF is trying to "create." [/QUOTE]
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