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Brave New World

e the dangers warned of throughout Brave New World. Regardless of the progress of technology, the real issue is not the capabilities and potential uses of new sciences. The real issue, as it is in Brave New World, is that there will always exist those who use new technologies for personal gain, evil pursuits and as an attempt to maintain power and control (like the State does in Brave New World). The ideal concept may be a state of stability that it unchanging, but this comes from our own internal dichotomy between a need for stability and the conflict with the instability of being real. No state has ever achieved such a stable condition in the history of mankind anyway, “Historically, no actual political state has ever achieved stability and only a very few have approximated it…Even so this is the aim for which all politicians and political states plan” (Firchow 85). Therefore, even though we have the power to splice and locate genes that will modify human characteristics and behavior (like manipulating a baby’s sex or sexuality), who would choose to allow this power in only the hands of a few, powerful interests? What would stop powerful white monied interests from trying to rid society of supposed undesirables like blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals or even women? After all, by being able to breed children outside of the womb, some men may feel their truly useful purpose is achievable without them. Some contend that no loss of humanity is involved in the attempt to remove the pain of human living.

Critics of Huxley’s work say he takes a negative perspective toward science because he focuses on the misuse of it, but drugs like Prozac are prescribed even to many children who complain of “depression” without information being widely known that the drug causes many side-affects like lack of sexual desire. Take the argument of one shallow critic of the novel who believes a world chemically altered would be a bli...

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