Thursday, February 26, 2009
Huxley's Perfect Society, Now Let The Rebellions Commence!
“Brave New World” has a very interesting society, where everyone is happy, and if you get unhappy for any reason, all you have to do is take some of the miracle drug soma and you instantly because happy, based on the dose you take. And everyone belongs to everyone, meaning men and women have sex with whomever they want, whenever they want, and that is normal. Then there is the fact that everyone is born in bottles, and is separated from decanting, birth from their bottles, into one of five castes, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon, alpha’s being the smartest and best and epsilons being the opposite. All in all, looking at this society in the ethical way, it is a nightmare. People are destined to be something from the moment they are even created, and if they are meant to be an epsilon they have alcohol put into their bloodstream to make them dumb. And the fact that no one can be unhappy is just crazy. But when I look at this society, I also see something that is just begging to be overthrown. Human beings, no matter how conditioned they are, will forever reject the idea of a perfect world because all humans are flawed, thus their lives and world must also be flawed, and that is how it has always been. So I definitely believe that this society is bad, because if you can’t experience and understand every emotion you have, then you might as well be dead.
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