What Not
- Editore:
MIT Press Ltd
- Collana:
- MIT Press / Radium Age
- EAN:
9780262544306
- ISBN:
026254430X
- Pagine:
- 248
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione What Not
"A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved British writer best known for The Towers of Trebizond - worked in the British Propaganda Dept. during WWI. When British censors discovered that What Not ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, its 1918 publication was stopped. An influence on Huxley's "Brave New World.""--
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