Brave New World

Brave New World is a remarkable journey into the future wherein mankind is dehumanized by the progress and misuse of technology to the point where society is a laboratory produced race of beings who are clones devoid of identity only able to worship the three things they have been preconditioned to love: “Henry Ford, their idol; Soma, a wonder drug; and sex” (Dusterhoof, Guynn, Patterson, Shaw, Wroten and Yuhasz 1). The misuse of perfected technologies, especially those allowing the manipulation of the human brain and genes, have created a pleasure-seeking world where there is no such thing as spiritual experience, just pleasures of the flesh. In the face of a transcendent religion, the inhabitants (genetically engineered to exist in one of five classes and condition to believe that the class within which they fall is the best one for them) lose their will to rebel against the capitalistic class-divisions of their society. Psychological mottoes and rigid class divisions have replaced traditional societal values such as family, religion and freedom. A wonder drug that removes all psychological pain, the pursuit of carnal pleasures, and the replacement of identity and soul with idol worship of a Henry Ford type savior serve to create a dystopia that is frightening as well as the path already being forged in society when he wrote the wor

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e without struggles, without hurt, without growing old or without facing unpredictability, danger and fear. There must be a balance developed between humanity and technology because only those who wish to change humanity would imagine Huxley has written a work which takes a negative perspective on technology. Huxley is taking a negative perspective on those who would misuse technology to rid life of feeling, emotion and spirituality. He is also criticizing those who think there is some cure-all or overnight answer to some of life’s most profound questions such as, what are the meaning of life and death, what is man, what is God? Huxley realizes we are all connected but through our humanity not because of some benevolent dictatorship or some enforced way of being through genetic or psychological tampering. Those who misuse technology in the way it is used in Brave New World are actually egocentric creatures who wish to tamper and evolve their own race in their own self-interests. We can look at various Republicans throughout the Clinton scandal to view just such a group of men, who, if invested with the power to manipulate the will of the people, would certainly choose to do so for their own special interests. To better unde
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Approximate Word count = 4069
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page)