BNW17 - Explication! The Truth Comes Out!

"Right up to the time of the Nine Years' War. That made them change their tune all right. What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?" (Brave New World, pg. 228) I finally understand what I believe to be Huxley's purpose for writing. I understand why everybody is so conditioned. Huxley published this book in 1932. He had lived through WWI and the Great Depression had just begun. I believe he was trying to discourage a Second World War. His anthrax bomb in the Nine Years' War is the equivalent of the nuclear bombs of today. They destroy so much and ruin all of the progress we've made. I feel like this is his outcry to control science. Yes, it advances us, but it may also destroy us. Today is the day we face that decision - do we move forward and risk it, or do we condition ourselves to be happy? According to Michio Kaku, our world is in this transition to a Type I Civilization. Real scientists like Einstein don't intend for peoplo to die from their science. It happens when the technology gets in the wrong hands.