Brave New World’s Brave New Risks Technology will either be humanity’s greatest long-term accomplishment or its ultimate demise. Without pure and steady hands, only time will tell. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, this idea is explored further in quite an extreme, but necessary, manner. As technology advances, so does the corrupted hand that desires to make use of it to control society; All for profit, social gain, totality, and control. Humanity is a necessity but, ironically, it can easily be lost. The obvious problem that Huxley is addressing is the increasing acceptance of machinery and mass production. The gradual overall acceptance for inhumane and immoral attitudes and actions, along with the decaying value for nature and
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In BNW, however, it’s the basis of their society and economy. Not only mass producing every resource possible, but even mass producing humans. The miracle of giving life to a child on one’s own is already stripped away, just like that, removing the grip we have on our own reproduction and future. Dehumanizing everything possible seems to be the aim of the BNW society. It even goes so far as to justify the cremation of all bodies instead of proper burial; the amount of phosphorus in return for a human corpse is “worth it.” What better way to convince people that they’re doing good, even by death? The dehumanization of the world builds a sense of dread, allowing the concept that nature is completely absent and that precise-science controls the world with a cold fist. Dehumanize and demoralize; no thoughts or feelings are needed for simple tasks, predestination, and mindless existence. (Or at least, that’s what they …show more content…
For, how could you make people think harder about stuff without blowing it out of proportion? Constantly referencing places that are generally regarded as “good” and completely throwing them ashore, expanding on the idea of totality and governmental superiority to its peoples, and the dehumanizing and unnatural ways that the society functions all expand the reader’s views to the degree that Huxley might have even intended. To some, the grotesque images and ideas expressed in BNW are too unsightly and shouldn’t be explored. Those are the people that Huxley basically warns the readers about. If one isn’t open to expanding knowledge and insight, then they are either deeply religious or they want to control the way the world thinks. Some may even make the connection between the two. As for Huxley, the ingenuity required to process even this level of possibility is quite the necessity that this world so desperately needs and is so often falsely sought
In BNW, however, it’s the basis of their society and economy. Not only mass producing every resource possible, but even mass producing humans. The miracle of giving life to a child on one’s own is already stripped away, just like that, removing the grip we have on our own reproduction and future. Dehumanizing everything possible seems to be the aim of the BNW society. It even goes so far as to justify the cremation of all bodies instead of proper burial; the amount of phosphorus in return for a human corpse is “worth it.” What better way to convince people that they’re doing good, even by death? The dehumanization of the world builds a sense of dread, allowing the concept that nature is completely absent and that precise-science controls the world with a cold fist. Dehumanize and demoralize; no thoughts or feelings are needed for simple tasks, predestination, and mindless existence. (Or at least, that’s what they …show more content…
For, how could you make people think harder about stuff without blowing it out of proportion? Constantly referencing places that are generally regarded as “good” and completely throwing them ashore, expanding on the idea of totality and governmental superiority to its peoples, and the dehumanizing and unnatural ways that the society functions all expand the reader’s views to the degree that Huxley might have even intended. To some, the grotesque images and ideas expressed in BNW are too unsightly and shouldn’t be explored. Those are the people that Huxley basically warns the readers about. If one isn’t open to expanding knowledge and insight, then they are either deeply religious or they want to control the way the world thinks. Some may even make the connection between the two. As for Huxley, the ingenuity required to process even this level of possibility is quite the necessity that this world so desperately needs and is so often falsely sought