Economic Issues In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, the author of a dystopian book Brave New World, wrote his work during the Great Depression of the 1930s and created a humorous future of the humans. At the time, he perhaps created some elements of the book as humorist, such as cloning or genetic adjustments. In hindsight, we can see that not everything was only a satiric drivel, but many elements in the book are available today thanks to improvements in science, such as previously mentioned genetic engineering. Do these inventions help to improve our society or they lead us to destruction? Economic inequality, that has been increasing in the past few decades creates a system of castes and divides the population between rich and poor. The current economic system allows big …show more content…
During the Bokanovsky’s Process and conditioning, all embryos are predestinated to their future and their cast. The government uses a policy, that an ordinary worker does not need to think, because that is the privilege of chosen. Only two out of five casts are not cloned, Alphas and Betas. They are the idols of the society, attractive, capable, and successful people. During the conditioning process, Alphas are given special vitamins and nutritions to create better humans. These people have an absolute advantage over other casts, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Recently, modern scientists discovered ways how to enrich a human embryo inside of the mother. This new technology is extremely expensive and available only for the top 1% of the world population. Event thought the technology is really new and not proven, this can lead in the future to gap between the “original” humans and the “enriched …show more content…
It is natural for humans to be progressive and continue with new discoveries in science, and it is not possible to stop it, even though many researches can be consider as unethical. Many discoveries were traded for suffering, but they have changed the society that we have today (i.g. uranium). The world is moving towards deeper globalization, boarders within the countries are being open (Schengen Area), and the world languages are slowly creating a conclusion. Technologies, such as genetic adjustment can be highly beneficial, only if it was open to everyone and it was not used for army purposes. The problem is that we will never be able to create a system that would last forever because we are still human beings - we have our feelings, and everyone is unique. The world with stable system, without turmoils and suffering would be probably pleasant for a short time, but not forever. The instability, that our society created is only a reflection of our uniqueness and prove that we are not programmed computers, but uniquely thinking