This quote showed up in my RSS feed reader and I absolutely had to share it. Given everything that I’ve been dealing with lately, these words really speak to me.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley
What do you think?
Also, speaking of Aldous Huxley, he and George Orwell both wrote famous (and rightfully so – they’re both brilliant) novels about dystopian futures. The interesting contrast is this – in Orwell’s dystopian future, what we fear has risen up to control us; however, in Huxley’s vision, what we love has coddled us into unquestioning submission.
With everything we see in American society today – rampant consumerism (even in a depression), “reality” television, celebutantes, pain and suffering and love and lust as entertainment – I’m beginning to fear that Huxley was far more prophetic than Orwell. Unfortunately, Huxley’s vision is far more tempting, far more insidious, and far more difficult to escape than that of 1984.
Do you thing I’m wrong?
