What's the point of Huxley's Island?
I enjoyed this essay on Huxley & Brave New World (a), though I disagree with most of what the author says.
When reading, I noticed a typo and reached out to Hidysmith. In our correspondence, he asked:
What do you think the point of Island was? I'm not sure there was one.
My reply, hyperlinks added for clarity:
Big question. Short (& lossy) answer – Pala was one instance of a dialectic process which is reconciling Moloch & Elua on a very long timescale.
In some object-level sense, Pala failed & was overtaken by Molochian forces, but in a more zoomed-out sense, Pala pushed forward the frontier of what social possibilities could be reified & made progress towards the Moloch-Elua reconciliation.