Clare’s Reviews > Island > Status Update

And now we're defending the pedagogical value of games. Just swinging wildly between the great and the terrible in terms of ideas.

Ah, yeah, and there's the eugenics. Points being deducted rapidly.

I know I'm going to have criticisms of this book, but Huxley is notching a lot of wins in a short amount of time:

- Excoriation of conservative Christianity for its love of child abuse.
- Criticism of sensationalist, biased media.
- Argument that efficiency itself can lead directly to loss of life satisfaction by forcing people into work-life drudgery.

Amazing how long we've known what's wrong with the world.

"In Palla, 'maximum efficiency' isn't the categorical imperative that it is with you. You think first of getting the biggest possible output in the shortest possible time. We think first of human beings and their satisfactions... If it's a choice between mechanical efficiency and human satisfaction, we choose satisfaction."