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, huma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Radium Age book series.
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| Summary: | 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 Department during World War I. 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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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 211 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page xxvii). |
| ISBN: | 9780262544306 026254430X |