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A review by jo_noelle_beamer
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
3.0
“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth… There is no longer a man among his fellow men, no longer a rational being speaking articulately to other rational beings; there is only a lacerated animal, screaming and struggling in the trap. For in the end, fear casts out even a man’s humanity. And fear, my good friends, fear is the very basis and foundation of modern life.”
This is one I’ll be thinking about for a while. While less developed than its predecessor (Brave New World,) Ape and Essence is a haunting portrayal of the animalistic side of our human nature and how our untamed desire for progress may in truth be leading us there.
Full thoughts available on my Substack: https://beamandbookish.substack.com/p/to-cast-out-fear
This is one I’ll be thinking about for a while. While less developed than its predecessor (Brave New World,) Ape and Essence is a haunting portrayal of the animalistic side of our human nature and how our untamed desire for progress may in truth be leading us there.
Full thoughts available on my Substack: https://beamandbookish.substack.com/p/to-cast-out-fear