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.”