Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Our Scary New World
I am almost done with Brave New World, and I have realized how scary similar our world today is compared to the world in the book. Our world is similar today because just like in Brave New World, our economy is ran by consumers, profit, and cheap ways to maximize how much goods can be produced while our society is ran from the promotion of drugs to help people stay happy, sex and how much bragging that goes with it, and technology that everyone relies on. "Ford" is mentioned throughout the entire book and praised by everyone because he was the one who perfected the assembly line and why their world is full of happiness and consumption. He is seen as a deity to society because he started their perfect utopia that is full of everything everyone has wished for. (most of things he brought is similar to what our world consist of today) I am scared how our future is going to look later on because based on the book right now; their world that is really similar to ours is full of humans who don't think for themselves and rely on the technology, drugs, and their perfect system that they think has made their life a paradise. Will our future be like that? Will we lose the ability to think for ourselves and act as an individual in the world? Will our world end up exactly like how a Brave New World is, with so much dependence on drugs and technology to keep people happy? From the path our world is taking, it wouldn't be surprising if we end up like their society later on when technology gets even more advanced and our lives become more dependent on it to be happy.
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Good evening Vincent, I uderstand where you're coming from, and it sucks to say that the further we get into the future the more technology will influence the human mind. It's actually quite scary how Aldous Huxley's fictitious world resembles to ours today. In fact, the parallelism between his world and ours causes me to suggest that we have already come to a point of where people feel like drugs, and technology are necessities to happiness. However, the possibility of our society becoming fully like Huxley's (utopian) would rather be a challenge; because, like most books that portray a utopian society there are always those people/characters who will refuse to comply with a society that portrays it's manipulative ways as good and beneficial. Needless to say, at the rate our society is going who's to say we won't become like Huxley's fictitious world.
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DeleteI personally think that our world will not turn out to how Aldous Huxley thinks it will turn out to be because even though we are advancing in technology, there is still other methods to have happiness. Although it seems as if we are becoming rapidly dependent on technology and medications, I do believe there will, at some point, be a breakthrough where we do not face the issue that our world becomes Huxley's world. There is a possibility that we could become the world Huxley said we would become, but that possibility is highly unlikely considering how many strong radical leaders we have in this world.
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