Brave New World Revisited

Huxley argues that overpopulation produces a strain on food and resources and vitiates the gene pool. Discuss how overpopulation relates to other issues like propaganda, over-organization, and the depersonalized nature of city life. 

Discuss Huxley’s view of science, particularly its capacity for improving human life versus its capacity for harm.

Huxley cites entertainment and religion as examples of distractions that can endanger freedom. Formulate an argument that posits religion as more of a distraction from social and political realities than entertainment, and vice versa. 

Huxley discusses situations where good intentions produce bad results. Select one and analyze.

According to Huxley, what are the differences between rational and irrational propaganda?

How does IQ and the mental health of the gene pool relate to overpopulation? In your view, is his alarm about a decline in average intelligence justified?

While writing Brave New World Revisited, Huxley was experimenting with mescaline and other hallucinogenic drugs. How do you reconcile his anti-drug warnings in Chapter 8 with his drug use?

Huxley discusses how the Big Man exploits the Little Man in modern society. What effect does this exploitation have on personal freedom?