A busca pelo prazer vai arruinar sua vida | Admirável Mundo Novo

The constant pursuit of immediate pleasure is ruining your life. It sounds like a strange statement, I know. If you could turn off all the feelings that make you suffer just by taking a pill, would you? Emotions like sadness, anxiety, anger, fear, doubt, insecurity, rejection, disappointment, all disappear in a matter of minutes. You only feel pleasure; nothing else affects you or causes pain. In Brave New World, a classic of English literature written by Aldous Huxley in 1932, society has eliminated any kind of negative emotion. In this dystopia, even love has been eliminated, but shallow pleasures are encouraged. All relationships are cold and disconnected. But by eliminating suffering, Huxley constructs a dangerous narrative where human beings are machines devoid of meaning, purpose, or virtue. Shall we talk more about this? 00:00 Introduction 01:34 The human being as a machine 03:57 Human complexity in Brave New World 08:45 The absence of free will 11:20 Hedonic and eudaimonic pleasure 15:04 The excess of cynicism and the absence of freedom 18:04 The death of experience in the real world 19:47 Conclusion #dystopia #bravenewworld #literature #classicliterature #sciencefiction #aldoushuxley #bravenewworld #adulthood #totalitarianism #dictatorship #booktuber #books #relationship #love #feelings #freewill #neuroscience #robertsapolsky #certainbooks #certain