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Books
_Gray Matters_, William Hjortsberg
It's akin to Robert Silverberg's _The World Inside_, in that the focus is on population and sex. It's not as well written. This is precyberpunk dystopia/utopia, precursor to the Matrix movies. Everyone save a few thousand reincarnated neoBuddhists is a brain in a vat. The world government is largely dedicated to maintaining a ladder of enlightenment, theoretically open for all to ascend. This acts as social stratification, but the nonultimate rewards are not explained, and everyone appears to be engaged in various forms of forced psychotherapy, meditation exercises, E-meter runs...
Not worth rereading. Probably not worth reading, as everything it seems to have to say has been said before and afterwards with better prose.
It's akin to Robert Silverberg's _The World Inside_, in that the focus is on population and sex. It's not as well written. This is precyberpunk dystopia/utopia, precursor to the Matrix movies. Everyone save a few thousand reincarnated neoBuddhists is a brain in a vat. The world government is largely dedicated to maintaining a ladder of enlightenment, theoretically open for all to ascend. This acts as social stratification, but the nonultimate rewards are not explained, and everyone appears to be engaged in various forms of forced psychotherapy, meditation exercises, E-meter runs...
Not worth rereading. Probably not worth reading, as everything it seems to have to say has been said before and afterwards with better prose.