Utilitarianism In Brave New World

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Leaders welcome to the United Nations Annual Conference. What happens when values of society and the values of individuals compete? People have always been victims to hegemonic struggle due to political actions and motivations.
How do the people fall victim to political actions, you may ask?
Imagine yourself for a moment, you feel something but can’t express it. WHY? Because the government and politicians condemn you from experiencing this.
Still not convinced? Imagine yourself as an average person attempting to lift weights. Each of the weights represents the power politicians have. As their power grows, what would happen to you? You would either rebel or be oppressed.
TOTALITARIANISM! Would you allow someone else to be in control of everything
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Let me tell you a little story of Aldous Huxley’s prose fiction.
During the advancement in science a young boy Aldous Huxley hailing from a scientific family saw something which no one could. What he saw went against what his family believed.
But do you know what it was? Let me give you a hint; imagine being born in a test tube. Then being conditioned on how to behave and what to feel.
Huxley could and hence he uses dystopian genre to represent scientific advancement as he questions his readers to be aware of the human impact. He represents totalitarianism through conditioning and hypnopaedia for the politicians of the time to achieve absolute power and control as well as capitalism. Brave New World is his representation of the events of the time. He feared the rise of America and what it meant for Europe.
“Community, Identity, Stability” the world state motto. What a joke? Yes there is community. Yes there is stability but where is the identity.
I mentioned earlier about conditioning and hypnopaedia. You are probably wondering what those are? Let the director of hatcheries tell you “for that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief,
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The main character V of the film allows the people of the dystopian United Kingdom to realise what the politicians such as Adam Sandler are doing in the name of “protection”. In his revolutionary speech which he forcibly displays on all screens a passage states “since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the

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