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Goal: To be prepared for the exhibition on Thursday, 5pm for first class, 6pm for 2nd class, in the Animas commons.  Extra credit for bringing food/drinks, and/or arriving early or staying late to set up or take down

Agenda:
  *Finish anything you didn't finish from yesterday's post and approve it with Matt

2nd half of class:

Get into small groups of two to three.

Read aloud and group annotations of the article, "Brave New World, 75 years later".  Annotate for Questions, Connections, and Definitions
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_C9fVngmGpvd3VaT2NRcGNNbDQ/view?usp=sharing 

As a group, discuss the following questions and take notes as you discuss:
a.  What did Huxley mean when he said (I'm paraphrasing for clarity), that "History...is the expression of our contemporary fears?"

b.  On page 2, Why did HG Wells, another writer, write that "Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book", and why did he think that the future would turn out much more optimistically?  Do you agree or disagree with him?

c.  How were the psychologist's Lancelot Hogben's attempts to "make psychology a physical science...relieving man of the burden of his soul" parodied by Huxley in Brave New World?  Give some specific examples.

d. Near the end of the article, the author describes how "as curiosity turned to technique, inquiry was drained of wonder and left to stagger about in an existential wasteland...the beloved has become a skeleton of rattling bones, and God is ghostly too."  What is the author speaking about?  Do you agree with her (and Huxley's) concern?  Why or why not?

Using the article above, Brave New World, and  the Victor Frankl article, generate questions as a group using the googledoc below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ocHzsleEK7n7or_zOJ5WVKlxd6gHAF7DFNf-hJJHVKU/edit?usp=sharing