World Sauntering Day 2024 is on Wednesday, June 19, 2024: Tommorrow is World Sauntering Day, will you be Sauntering?

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 is World Sauntering Day 2024. "World Sauntering Day" is celebrated on the 19th day of June every year. The purpose is to remind us to take it easy, smell the roses, to slow down and enjoy life as opposed to rushing through it.

"World Sauntering Day" is celebrated on the 19th day of June every year. The purpose is to remind us to take it easy, smell the roses, to slow down and enjoy life as opposed to rushing through it.

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The Hunger Games VS. Brave New World?

What is older is not necessarily "better," though the same applies to what is newer.

That being said, I think "The Hunger Games" might be a more entertaining novel to read, perhaps because of the increased sport and action and because all wraps up slightly more pleasurably for its main character than "Brave New World's." Maybe if the overly unified government in "The Hunger Games" oppressed its citizens quite as thoroughly and effectively as the one in "Brave New World," the case would be otherwise.

"Brave New World" was incredibly revolutionary for its time: Aldous Huxley, all of eight decades ago (the day before yesterday in the great scheme of human history!), found in his crystal ball a world that just gobbled up whatever its inhabitants could get their collective, greasy mittens on, took all the nature out of natural sciences, and encouraged people to procrastinate on defraying their responsibilities with a drug that temporarily wiped your brain blank and wouldn't cause any unpleasant side effects. By building on the past so radically, they effectively bulldozed it in the Brave New World—which has become one entity subdivided, for administrative purposes, into ten, to each of which a World Controller is assigned, each of whom claims what can only be called executive privilege. (For my own part, I oppose isolationism—I believe its practitioners are simply blind, arrogant, egotistical jingoists—but I will not allow my country to be subsumed into one homogeneous entity along with two hundred others.) As everyone is forcibly kept happy by the government and by corporations connected to it, and no one has an opportunity to break true "class stereotypes," this is an incredibly strong dictatorship, and sauntering novel was a rather bleak, but informative, experience for me. They say you have to decide which is the lesser of two evils: corporations or government. I do not believe that either is a "lesser evil"; I would abolish both if I could and will make it my life's work to weaken the hold of both on the ordinary man and woman.

By contrast, totalitarianism in "The Hunger Games" has only gobbled up what we know as the continent of North America, now called "Panem"—headed by one "president" who is probably the victor of a sham election (I have read this book and its two sequels in its entirety and could hardly make heads or tails out of any sort of democratic process, perhaps because there is very little of one, owing in turn to the country's inhabitants' failure to remember a time when there ever was one)—though the most important similarity still remains: the people are totally subjugated to the government. The twelve outlying districts around the country's Capitol, which centralizes its power therein, each (in most cases) reluctantly send a boy and girl to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a celebration of the Capitol's wealth and power over the districts, neither of which I support. Of necessity, the two go hand in hand in this world. In "The Hunger Games," however, a brief lull in the inherent class discrimination of this dystopia does come about when {Spoiler Alert!} the main character—the girl from District 12, the poorest of the districts—actually tricks the Capitol, sticks it out and wins the Games.

So there's your ultimate point: the society of "Brave New World" is more firmly under an autocratic thumb than that in "The Hunger Games."

Are parents these days to overprotective?

Yes, I do believe they are.

Just from the other answer, relating mothers to "mother bears," I do want to point out that mother bears are not overprotective. They let their cubs rough-house and saunter off on their own. They also chase their cubs off when they grow up and then have nothing further to do with them.

Human mothers are overprotective. Children can't stub their toe without it being treated as a medical crisis, and kids can't go get the newspaper from the end of the driveway because "anybody could be a predator."

No, anybody could not be a predator. People either are or not predators, and those of us who are not predators greatly outnumber those who are, and the world is actually a friendlier, safer place than today's parents would have you believe.