Aldous Huxley shows how ignorance and pure happiness should not be the basis for an entire society. Multiple times in this book, people are able to gain happiness at the snap of their fingers. If they don’t feel like doing something, or are having a problem within their life, they are able to escape life and be happy without dealing with the problem. Unfortunately, this may be the direction we are going in, and Huxley tries to show this in the book. In the book, people are able to leave the pressures of life with the use of a hallucinogen called soma. This drug allows a psychedelic trip which leaves the body worthless, while the person’s consciousness escapes reality. This shows how the people of this society react to adversity. This mindset
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After genetically engineering lower caste workers to be less intelligent and useful along some other conditioning like shock therapy and hypnopaedia, this situation ends with a boat load of workers that are okay with their low position in society. There is a point in the book when Lenina and her boyfriend at the time are flying and start talking about some dead bodies being burned up for natural gas. After some time of talking, he concluded, “There’s one thing we can be certain of; whoever he may have been, he was happy when he was alive. Everybody’s happy now” (75). That last snippet is then repeated by Lenina and confirms that this society’s main focus is happiness, ignorance, and loss of individuality. The problem of this society, through the conditioning and soma taking, is that they are unable to face negativity and unhappiness. These problems and negative emotions are what make us human. …show more content…
In fact South Africa is severely affected by the ignorance of their president and their corrupted scientists. In the mid-2000s, Thabo Mbeki, then the president of South Africa, seized on the idea that AIDS was caused not by a virus but by other factors, such as malnourishment and poor health, and so he rejected offers of drugs and other forms of assistance to combat HIV infection in South Africa. ("America's Cult of Ignorance," 2017) This type of ignorance is also seen in America, as most of us blindly follow the newest trends and the crowd in general. Anyone can find a study online about how humans generally, through peer pressure, will follow the crowd, even though they know what they are doing is wrong or weird. Last year, Mr. Furlong, a teacher at MOC-FV, led his students through an activity where they took a freshmen and through peer pressure, caused them to do various acts that would go against their innocent
After genetically engineering lower caste workers to be less intelligent and useful along some other conditioning like shock therapy and hypnopaedia, this situation ends with a boat load of workers that are okay with their low position in society. There is a point in the book when Lenina and her boyfriend at the time are flying and start talking about some dead bodies being burned up for natural gas. After some time of talking, he concluded, “There’s one thing we can be certain of; whoever he may have been, he was happy when he was alive. Everybody’s happy now” (75). That last snippet is then repeated by Lenina and confirms that this society’s main focus is happiness, ignorance, and loss of individuality. The problem of this society, through the conditioning and soma taking, is that they are unable to face negativity and unhappiness. These problems and negative emotions are what make us human. …show more content…
In fact South Africa is severely affected by the ignorance of their president and their corrupted scientists. In the mid-2000s, Thabo Mbeki, then the president of South Africa, seized on the idea that AIDS was caused not by a virus but by other factors, such as malnourishment and poor health, and so he rejected offers of drugs and other forms of assistance to combat HIV infection in South Africa. ("America's Cult of Ignorance," 2017) This type of ignorance is also seen in America, as most of us blindly follow the newest trends and the crowd in general. Anyone can find a study online about how humans generally, through peer pressure, will follow the crowd, even though they know what they are doing is wrong or weird. Last year, Mr. Furlong, a teacher at MOC-FV, led his students through an activity where they took a freshmen and through peer pressure, caused them to do various acts that would go against their innocent