Pala_island

Published in 1962, nine years after his psychedelic experience that he documented in Doors of Perception, Huxley writes the “yang” to Brave New World’s “yin”. 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’t work, but instead of doing that I’ll point out some ideas that seemed really interesting: ...