Brave New World/Postmodernism Prompt =)

Myths and narratives serve as an ethical importance to a present society. It permits individuals to determine his or her beliefs without being told if it is true or not. A myth can ultimately be taken in as true or false by a person’s discourse, which in being said, can be passed on from generation to generation. Although, there is a difference between a myth and a true fact, a myth explains how a fact has come to be. This action can be contradicted because evidence is limited and is told in stories or wording. Also, narrative shapes the early stages of moral development. This action is not taken upon in Brave New World.

Myths and narratives are abolished in the society presented in the novel. Instead of designating moral development, the act of brain washing and technological use is in power. Natural and cultural (also can be stated as myths or narratives) ways are ignored and destroyed, such as when a simple scene in the novel states, "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State." Instead of a mind growing up by moral standards and cultural/naturalistic ways, the brain is forced to act upon a certain way by technology and imperfect human beings. Choices are demolished, while demands are forced and unquestionable. These characteristics extinguish hearts’ desires and logical thinking. Although the novel has one grand narrative, in which being that the people can only follow certain criterias and actions to be labeled as correct and okay in society. This leads to ultimate repression.

Cultures allow stories to be brought upon in society. This is brought upon ultimately by the narratives and myths. Cultures were brought upon by narratives and myths in the beginning because technology was of no use back in the days. It was of great importance to share “thought that were assumed to be facts” to be spread from generation to generation. In one culture of today such as Christianity, it is a choice to follow it as a “fact or myth.” An individual is allowed to take the Bible as a reference or just a book (story). In Brave New World, culture beliefs are overall shattered. Cultures cannot allow stories to be brought upon because people are forced upon into functioning his or her mind in ways society desires them, instead of by nature. This rids of new ideas, facts, and knowledge to be stored because stories read cannot be relative in a normal way, but in a controlling one.

Brave New World =)

Brave New World obtains an outrageous and preposterous society, one that I disagree with ultimately. The government not just controls the way society is to be lived, just as in 1984, but how someone is to be born and brought upon earth.

In reading the novel, individualism is abolished and overall extinct. Technologies control reproduction through medical machines, instead of by human nature. In doing this, a machine can create any time of human being they desire, in addition, to being identical to even ninety-six people. This is beyond insanity. The world was brought upon by nature, not by humanity. Humans did not create the earth, so this should give them no reason to create individuals and mess with the selection of humans to produce. Each person is supposed to be produced by a man and a woman who is not exactly like anyone who has ever been in existence, thus, both producing a baby that is unique and has ceased to exist before. Without this action, uniqueness and distinctiveness in comparison to another human being can be brought upon as similar or exact in nature.

The illogical nature of the novel is exotic in the way it is being explained. As the director explains how infants are to be taught certain criteria’s for a planned future he comments how people should be formed and taught in a way by hypnopaedia instead or moral education in stating, “Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.” This is immoral. Building up knowledge is an act of learning which is apart of being an individual. Without the act of learning experiences, one cannot enhance his or her self in life. In being controlled just as a robot, one is limited in knowledge and can only act upon certain situations.

Although I disagree with what is written in the book, I am looking forward to see what else is to be read. It states about reproduction through the chapters, but I am aware that it goes into deeper meaning than just that. It involves “technology control, consumer society, and the incompatibility of happiness and truth.”

Basis of Our Country

In discussing the article in class, it is quite obvious all of our beliefs and opinions were revealed. I observed the verbal aggressiveness as individuals spoke, facial expressions of concerns or agreement, or just a rather simple nod or shake of the head determined whether we concurred or were against the statement spoken. I have ultimately concluded that no matter how much we share in common or how each one of us find an opinion outrageously preposterous, we ultimately will never see eye to eye the views of someone else in understanding him or her completely. This defines what we learned in class; a discourse. In that being said, my opinion about the topic was determined completely by only my discourse.I have been raised as a Christian child my entire life, so my beliefs are brought upon differently by others. This is the basis of my perspective on ideas classmates stated in class. Although I understood the opinions stated in class, each person had an individual opinion within his or her self, let alone by his or her discourse. I, myself, do not mind Christianity being permanently put into history books and being stated as “an overall force for good.” This is because I have been raised to live for God, completely. The American nation was founded upon Biblical principles basic to Christianity and to Judaism which it flowed. The basis of the Bill of Rights is influenced from chapters of the Bible in Exodus, Saint Matthew, and Isaiah. If we did not have a moral background, our country could have ended up as a Totalitarian government, such as in 1984. Totalitarianism bands individuals’ rights for anyone except the state. In that being said, without the assistance of Christianity would our Bill of Rights still be the same? Would we be allowed the same freedom laws as we obtain now? If it were not for the Bible, would our Bill of Rights be the same? In this reason, we should give at least some acknowledgment towards the Christian faith in putting it into the text books. Yes there are plenty of religions that could be put into text books: Muslims, Jews, Naturists, Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Unitarians, etc., but the morals of those religions were not put into the Bill of Rights. Although, our society is not set in stone to be a Christian nation, our society was based upon the morals and beliefs of that faith. Why on American coins do they state “In God we trust”? That is because it is crediting the Christian faith, but is not forcing people to be apart of the religion, which brings us back to the Bill of Rights. All in all, Christianity should be put into school text books because it assisted our country to the outcome of all our freedoms of today.