Imagine how different the world would be...

Question

if everybody was born coffee-coloured and raised in an institution and nobody knew anything about their origins or "birthright" or "heritage", and nobody could find out.

Comments

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

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Eddie wins the cigar.

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Plato tried it, too. DIdn't work then either.

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Nobody's tried it for real.  The difficuties exist in the minds of people who can't think themselves out of their own upbringing.

Answer 1

The Kibbutzim tried this but it didn't work out in the long run.

Answer 2

A pointless nihilistic world, I think. Level playing field but probably pretty purposeless.

Answer 3

Pretty boring I should think, and all of us on here would be in need of a new way of amusing ourselves.

Comments

Should we choose this as the best answer?

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I think this is a question where there cannot be a best answer Lucy, but thanks for the thought