The challenge of keeping a population under control is a difficult one, and keeping a population elated at the same time is even more so. Totalitarian states usually adopt one or more malevolent methods to dominate their people. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the entire population of the world is under the control of the few in power through the installation of a modified social structure, universal brainwashing, and a powerful mind control drug, and this has serious, far-reaching implications for the modern world.
Foremost,the controllers must overturn the general structure of society, and the new system portrayed as truly superior in every way compared to the older systems. In Brave New World the controllers modify the entire …show more content…
In this case, the controllers in Brave New World not only control knowledge about the past, but they also control what is allowed to be known overall, and what lies to be spread. Unfortunately, people in the novel know little of what happened before 1 After Ford. After Ford is the time system used, alike the modern system of ‘Common Era’. Based on the first mass produced product of Henry Ford, society views him as the new deity, even replacing the phrase ‘My Lord’ with “My Ford”. Often overlooked, Ford is the perfect deity for a society matching the one in Brave New World as it runs on assembly lines and mass production, comparable to the crafts that Ford perfected. Anything other than the history of Ford has massively misconstrued to a point the description of our actual modern world seems alien. However, lessons are made from ‘the past’ as to reasons why conditions are the way they are now, much alike how stories in the Bible are used to teach lessons, these stories are used as excuses why the changes that were made were necessary. The only way that the people ‘learn’ information is from high ranking officials or controllers. Aforementioned the controllers are the only people who are still allowed to own copies of the Bible, and Shakespeare. In order for the controllers to form decisions, they have these important texts. This means that they must know how best to control the world and what is best for every man woman and child. Therefore, everybody blindly accepts whatever is told to them, assuming they are better off now than ever
Foremost,the controllers must overturn the general structure of society, and the new system portrayed as truly superior in every way compared to the older systems. In Brave New World the controllers modify the entire …show more content…
In this case, the controllers in Brave New World not only control knowledge about the past, but they also control what is allowed to be known overall, and what lies to be spread. Unfortunately, people in the novel know little of what happened before 1 After Ford. After Ford is the time system used, alike the modern system of ‘Common Era’. Based on the first mass produced product of Henry Ford, society views him as the new deity, even replacing the phrase ‘My Lord’ with “My Ford”. Often overlooked, Ford is the perfect deity for a society matching the one in Brave New World as it runs on assembly lines and mass production, comparable to the crafts that Ford perfected. Anything other than the history of Ford has massively misconstrued to a point the description of our actual modern world seems alien. However, lessons are made from ‘the past’ as to reasons why conditions are the way they are now, much alike how stories in the Bible are used to teach lessons, these stories are used as excuses why the changes that were made were necessary. The only way that the people ‘learn’ information is from high ranking officials or controllers. Aforementioned the controllers are the only people who are still allowed to own copies of the Bible, and Shakespeare. In order for the controllers to form decisions, they have these important texts. This means that they must know how best to control the world and what is best for every man woman and child. Therefore, everybody blindly accepts whatever is told to them, assuming they are better off now than ever