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Aldous Huxley

Here is a quote from Aldous Huxley that Richard provided:

 

"Escape," she explained, "is built into the new system. Whenever the

parental Home Sweet Home becomes too unbearable, the child is allowed,

is actively encouraged---and the whole weight of public opinion is

behind the encouragement---to migrate to one of the other homes."

"How many homes does a Palanese child have?"

 

"About twenty on average."

 

"Twenty? My God!"

 

"We all belong," Susila explained, "to an MAC---a Mutual Adoption Club.

Every MAC consists of anything from fifteen to twenty-five assorted

couples. Newly elected brides and bridegrooms, old-timers with growing

children, grandparents and great-grandparents---everybody in the club

adopts everyone else. Besides our own blood relations, we all have our

quota of deputy mothers, deputy fathers, deputy aunts and uncles, deputy

brothers and sisters, deputy babies and toddlers and teen-agers."

 

[...]

 

"Nothing," she assured him, "could be less like a commune than an MAC.

An MAC isn't run by the government, it's run by its members. And we're

not militaristic. We're not interested in turning out good party

members; we're interested in turning out good human beings. We don't

inculcate dogmas. And finally we don't take the children away from their

parents; on the contrary, we give the children additional parents and

the parents additional children. [...]"

 

{from Aldous Huxley's Island}