Semi-OT: The Icaran Empire Preview (the book one)

[Alneyan]

Starhawk said:
In regards to brave new world isn't that the one where they were all "Get stoned it's good for you and sleep with as MANY people as you possible can?" and "Long term relationships are bad."
Because that sorta doesn't fit in with a near Theocratic government And as stated Icaran school children actually see "posters" with the exact opposite messages.

Or was that stuff just the movie version with Spock I mean Nemoy?

That would be roughly correct, as far as the ideas go, but ideas are easy enough to alter. You could easily make up a "solitude, work, self-growth" society based on the same mechanisms as Brave New World: only the ideals change, but not how you can... convince all your citizens to follow them. Brave New World does have some religion, or more accurately, religiosity.

More generally, Brave New World is more of a twisted utopy than anything else, where government really knows what is best for the whole people, and implements these schemes. That basic idea sounds a lot closer to your own Icarians than 1984, though details are hardly the same.

This post should be considered when we vote for "Most Obscure Post Ever".