Since were watching a 6 part movie based on Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, it begs the question. After 86 years of the book getting published, how close are we to a brave new world scenario in 2018? Here are some of the concepts brought up in the book:
-State sanctioned sexual deviance (promiscuity, shunning abstinence and monogamy)
-destruction of the family unit (“family” is an unheard of concept in the book)
-babies are mass produced and raised/conditioned by the state
-manufacturing babies with mental deficiencies (severely retarded development from deliberately inflicted oxygen deprivation and alcohol exposure) and made to do lower level work
-state imposed caste system, determined by conception by deciding whether you will be smart (Alpha) or severely delayed (Epsilon)
-State enforced consumption of goods (“better to end than mend” as the book says)
-privacy is laughable (everyone is open about the most intimate aspects of their lives)
oh an if you weren’t aware, EVERYONE IN BNW IS ON DRUGS!!!!!!
Here’s a site that delves a little deeper into this topic.
James Dacre: are we living Brave New World's nightmare future?
-State sanctioned sexual deviance (promiscuity, shunning abstinence and monogamy)
-destruction of the family unit (“family” is an unheard of concept in the book)
-babies are mass produced and raised/conditioned by the state
-manufacturing babies with mental deficiencies (severely retarded development from deliberately inflicted oxygen deprivation and alcohol exposure) and made to do lower level work
-state imposed caste system, determined by conception by deciding whether you will be smart (Alpha) or severely delayed (Epsilon)
-State enforced consumption of goods (“better to end than mend” as the book says)
-privacy is laughable (everyone is open about the most intimate aspects of their lives)
oh an if you weren’t aware, EVERYONE IN BNW IS ON DRUGS!!!!!!
Here’s a site that delves a little deeper into this topic.
James Dacre: are we living Brave New World's nightmare future?
