The World State in Brave New World works to support submissiveness by giving citizens instant gratification mainly through intercourse. Relating to the book, Levitin discusses how the brain can suffer a “dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external simulation” (Levitin). Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that when released creates a feeling of satisfaction and happiness, such as when one meets a deadline or after finishing an assignment. By constantly checking emails, texts, or surfing the internet the brain is finding thousands of little novelties to take pleasure and happiness in and thus causing a release of a small reward of dopamine. Before the age
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Email and text has led to dehumanization as these new mediums of communication “somehow apparently makes it OK to ask for things they would never ask by phone in person, or in snail mail” (Levitin) according to a colleague of Levitin. Coworkers are now pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable to ask for and in pushing the boundaries they have become rude and impersonal. Levitin argues that mail that was handwritten or typed and then addressed and stamped was much more meaningful to the sender not only because it cost substantially more time to prepare it also cost physical money for the paper, the envelope, and the stamp. Sadly, emails do not contain the same costs of a letter leading to a loss of acceptable manners. Huxley predicted this loss of courtesy as characters, especially men, in the book repeatedly berate each other in order to achieve sexual gratification. Another case of dehumanization in Brave New World is that rumors and certain beliefs spread like wildfire and without consequence. Characters constantly discuss how Bernard Marx was accidentally stunted before he was decanted without any reparations very similar to how cyber-bullies today belittle those believed to be less than them anonymously avoiding any form of
Email and text has led to dehumanization as these new mediums of communication “somehow apparently makes it OK to ask for things they would never ask by phone in person, or in snail mail” (Levitin) according to a colleague of Levitin. Coworkers are now pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable to ask for and in pushing the boundaries they have become rude and impersonal. Levitin argues that mail that was handwritten or typed and then addressed and stamped was much more meaningful to the sender not only because it cost substantially more time to prepare it also cost physical money for the paper, the envelope, and the stamp. Sadly, emails do not contain the same costs of a letter leading to a loss of acceptable manners. Huxley predicted this loss of courtesy as characters, especially men, in the book repeatedly berate each other in order to achieve sexual gratification. Another case of dehumanization in Brave New World is that rumors and certain beliefs spread like wildfire and without consequence. Characters constantly discuss how Bernard Marx was accidentally stunted before he was decanted without any reparations very similar to how cyber-bullies today belittle those believed to be less than them anonymously avoiding any form of