I was mostly just making a joke about starting a struggle session by being non-specific and criticising whatever someone brought up.

tbh I like a lot of these, I think that as long as you engage with media critically it's hard to come out worse for it. Particularly though I have a general soft-spot for Huxley's writing although reading BNW without also reading The Island is reading half a text. His ideas are overall extremely elitist and reflect bougie technocratic thought stewing since the enlightenment but they do so interestingly. If you were to read one author to see why these ideas have appeal to certain demographics he would be near the top of my list, and I think book-clubbing and critically examining them is well worth your time.