In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, technology is used to shape what is described to be a utopia- a place without war, bloodshed, or social instability. However, this utopia is false, a sham of a society that oppresses its citizens while claiming it is for the people’s own good. A social caste that is engineered and impressed upon every individual from birth exists to keep people in place. Technology is twisted and warped as a dastardly effective tool in molding and suppressing the populace of Huxley’s world. Technology is used to control, dehumanize, and engineer a population that is so so radically warped in their thinking that they cannot see they are being oppressed by their leaders. Through the technological development and utilization,
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Technology plays a large part in this loss of humanity. Babies are engineered and molded like assembly line cars instead of people; they are not allowed to grow and develop naturally, and cannot develop any individual sense of self. Babies and children are conditioned to be a certain way, to enjoy or dislike certain things. From Alphas to Epsilons, every caste rank has some sort of ingrained prejudice or way of thought. They have no say in this part of their identity; it is built and installed into them, like a car part being welded onto a car, be it from the use of chemicals or temperature when they are embryos or from conditioning as a child. The effect on people is profound, as illustrated by conditioning: “In the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder” (Huxley, 2005, pg. 30). The people that are conditioned by the combination of psychology and technology of Huxley’s world grow up to hold these imposed ideals within them; in essence, their free will to be how they want to be has been curbed by the government. Free will and the ability to choose to be how one wishes to be is another uniquely human trait that is stripped by the technology of Huxley’s …show more content…
People are conditioned by societal expectations to conform in certain ways, like certain things, or dress a certain way; while perhaps this is not the intentional, government-led type of conditioning of the masses like in Huxley’s world, this unintentional conditioning has massive effects on the people involved, with social media usually acting as the conduit. People are depersonalized because they are faceless behind a screen, and can easily present themselves as what society wants them to be. Identical twins are produced in Brave New World via the Bokanovsky process genetically, but in our world identical people are produced through the repetitively enforced social norms and expectations. Social media has become like the conveyor belt of Brave New World; people mill through, changed and molded by others and conditioned into behaving and believing in certain ways. With the constant stream and access to social media, the conveyor belt does not seem to ever end; people will continue to be conditioned and molded just as the children of Huxley’s world were after their
Technology plays a large part in this loss of humanity. Babies are engineered and molded like assembly line cars instead of people; they are not allowed to grow and develop naturally, and cannot develop any individual sense of self. Babies and children are conditioned to be a certain way, to enjoy or dislike certain things. From Alphas to Epsilons, every caste rank has some sort of ingrained prejudice or way of thought. They have no say in this part of their identity; it is built and installed into them, like a car part being welded onto a car, be it from the use of chemicals or temperature when they are embryos or from conditioning as a child. The effect on people is profound, as illustrated by conditioning: “In the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder” (Huxley, 2005, pg. 30). The people that are conditioned by the combination of psychology and technology of Huxley’s world grow up to hold these imposed ideals within them; in essence, their free will to be how they want to be has been curbed by the government. Free will and the ability to choose to be how one wishes to be is another uniquely human trait that is stripped by the technology of Huxley’s …show more content…
People are conditioned by societal expectations to conform in certain ways, like certain things, or dress a certain way; while perhaps this is not the intentional, government-led type of conditioning of the masses like in Huxley’s world, this unintentional conditioning has massive effects on the people involved, with social media usually acting as the conduit. People are depersonalized because they are faceless behind a screen, and can easily present themselves as what society wants them to be. Identical twins are produced in Brave New World via the Bokanovsky process genetically, but in our world identical people are produced through the repetitively enforced social norms and expectations. Social media has become like the conveyor belt of Brave New World; people mill through, changed and molded by others and conditioned into behaving and believing in certain ways. With the constant stream and access to social media, the conveyor belt does not seem to ever end; people will continue to be conditioned and molded just as the children of Huxley’s world were after their