Last year, a company called ‘Deep Mind’, which is a subsidiary company of Google majoring in the field of artificial intelligence, developed ‘AlphaGo’. There was a centennial Go battle between the machine and ‘Se Dol Lee’, a renowned Go player. In the world of sophisticated mental games like Go, it was not expected that calculating machines could compete with humans who are capable of thinking creatively, even if they can process information at an astonishing speed. However, to our shock, AlphaGo won the battle by 4 to 1. This incident made us fear that the artificial intelligence could threaten our world in the acting areas of humankind. If the story comes true, what will be of us? Aldous Huxley, an ingenious British novelist, answers that
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Therefore, the love that a mother can give to her child is not passed down over generations. Everybody in the book feels happiness all the time by taking in a drug called SOMA, which controls people’s emotion. In this mental state, the resistance to the society are eliminated. Even worse, love between men and woman is under control, and there is no obligation in relationship. John, the savage man, is given birth in a traditional way by his mother, who is from the civilized society and was accidentally abandoned in the savaged area. He holds emotional relationships with his mother and learns human nature through reading cultural writings such as artworks of Shakespeare. John has feelings towards Lenina, who does not have the concept of love and is only after physical pleasure. The future society controls the feeling of true love and gives free love in return. Without actual affection and without care for others, Huxley’s imaginary society considers people to be nothing but a small part of the community.
In the society of , people are not taught literature and philosophy for upright character, sensitivity, and perceptivity. Therefore, the critical conception against the society is banned. By using SOMA, the society controls basic emotions that people used to have in order to guarantee its stability, which is nothing more than a futuristic dictatorship. John, who has the emotional connection to his mother and fills himself with the literature and thinking, resists the future society and its dictatorship. His final resistance is nothing but to give up his own life because the future society is too virile to
Therefore, the love that a mother can give to her child is not passed down over generations. Everybody in the book feels happiness all the time by taking in a drug called SOMA, which controls people’s emotion. In this mental state, the resistance to the society are eliminated. Even worse, love between men and woman is under control, and there is no obligation in relationship. John, the savage man, is given birth in a traditional way by his mother, who is from the civilized society and was accidentally abandoned in the savaged area. He holds emotional relationships with his mother and learns human nature through reading cultural writings such as artworks of Shakespeare. John has feelings towards Lenina, who does not have the concept of love and is only after physical pleasure. The future society controls the feeling of true love and gives free love in return. Without actual affection and without care for others, Huxley’s imaginary society considers people to be nothing but a small part of the community.
In the society of , people are not taught literature and philosophy for upright character, sensitivity, and perceptivity. Therefore, the critical conception against the society is banned. By using SOMA, the society controls basic emotions that people used to have in order to guarantee its stability, which is nothing more than a futuristic dictatorship. John, who has the emotional connection to his mother and fills himself with the literature and thinking, resists the future society and its dictatorship. His final resistance is nothing but to give up his own life because the future society is too virile to