When I originally read Brave New World in high school, I vividly remember thinking that I had been introduced to the meaning of life. What exactly it was, I couldn’t have articulated, but it had something to do with John’s decision to live a life apart from the technological comforts provided in the “brave new world.” Along with that book, I also remember reading 1984, by George Orwell, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury…