Retour to best of the worlds ( Honest New World Revisited ) is a novel of Aldous Huxley published in 1958.

The gasoline of the beautiful spirit can become the substance even lie. If elegant and friend of the memory that it is, the concision never can, in the nature of the things, to give an account of all the facts composing a complex situation. On a similar topic, one can be concise only by omission and simplification, two processes which help us to include/understand, certainly - but, in many cases, of through - the skilfully turned formulas of the abridger and not the immense ramified reality of which these concepts were abstract with such an amount of arbitrary.

It is true that the life is short and knowledge without limits: nobody has the time of all to know and in practice, we are generally constrained to choose between a too short talk or of not exposed a whole. The abbreviation is an necessary evil and that which practices it must try to draw the best possible one from a task which, although intrinsically bad, is better still than anything. It is necessary that it learns how to simplify without going until deforming. It is necessary that it learns how to make pay all its attention on the essential components of a situation, but without neglecting too many the asides who moderate reality. Perhaps in this way, he will manage to restore all the truth not (because it is incompatible with the brevity in the majority of the important subjects) but considerably more than the dangerous approximations which were always the currency of the thought.

The problem of freedom and its enemies is enormous, which I have writing is certainly too Court so that it is treated as it deserves it, but I at least effleuré some of many aspects. Perhaps each one of them was simplified with excess in the talk, but these successive drafts are superimposed to form a table which, I hope for it, gives at least an idea of the vastness and complexity of the original.

Only miss (not because they are negligible, but for reasons of simple convenience and because I already studied them on other occasions) the enemies mechanical and military of freedom - the weapons and “hardware” which so strongly reinforced the vice in which Masters of the world crush their subjects and the preparations, more ruinous still, of wars increasingly foolish because they are as many suicides. The reader will have to replace the chapters which follow in front of this dark backdrop: revolt and repression in Hungary, H-bombs, cost of what each nation describes as “defense”, interminable, columns of young people without uniform, white, blacks, reds, yellows, going submissively towards the common grave.