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Huxley Vs Krutch
Aldous Huxley is an English writer that had an idea of a perfect society in which many people would say have similarities and differences with Joseph Wood Krutch’s idea about his idea about a utopian society. Krutch’s thought about a utopian society is interesting because it’s contrary to what Huxley believes. Krutch explains that “having fun” is ignoble and that if people put “fun” before anything else, a utopian society would be impossible. Huxley talked about the reality of a utopian society, “Utopian is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.” Huxley believes that people having fun are utopian to them and because of this, Huxley’s ideas and his prediction about one’s society doesn’t coincide with Krutch’s

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