https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/east_west_integration/ Recent content in East_west_integration on George's Blog Hugo en-US Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-island/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:32:42 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-island/ <p>Published in 1962, nine years after his psychedelic experience that he documented in Doors of Perception, Huxley writes the &ldquo;yang&rdquo; to Brave New World&rsquo;s &ldquo;yin&rdquo;. This story follows a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on an island called Pala. These people do things in their own way thanks to the chance encounter between a Scottish doctor and the previous King of Pala about a hundred years prior to the main story in the book. The island represents a utopia imagined by Aldous with the best of east and west. This book started off with a bang then lagged a little in the middle but picked up at the end. Like many utopian ideas there is no shortage of opportunities to pick holes in ideas and explain why they wouldn&rsquo;t work, but instead of doing that I&rsquo;ll point out some ideas that seemed really interesting:</p>