Leon Kass Brave New World Analysis

Leon Kass, a public intellectual, and a scientist suggests that Brave New World by Aldous Huxley gives an accurate vision of the future of society in general which is leaning towards a utopian course. All societies no matter what overall condition are leading towards a utopian society due to the “procession in modern medicine”, and while the advancement of medicine has helped in the battle against “disease, decay, and death” these advancements in technology are now starting to be used to alter the human body itself and soon can be used to control a human being (Kass). Altercations of the body such as “computer-chip implants for human brains”, or “artificial organs” are just the beginning to what we can and will do to enhance our bodies as a race, and if we continue the trend, we potentially could end up with a system that the World State used to …show more content…
In Huxley’s novel, all humans are genetically programmed before birth for specific roles in society, and to make everyone perfect there has to be a “lack of freedom” (Kass). Kass’s view on the perfect society differs with Huxley’s ideology, Kass’s idea of a perfect world describes a society where all of the peoples desires are given based on “free human choice”, and there is no need for world controllers, just “technological imperative, liberal democratic society” and “free markets” (Kass).. Huxley’s Brave New World gives readers a dystopia that presents a more frightening potentially accurate future for human beings, and ultimately suggests what we must choose, a depressed but natural human world, or a happy but bioengineered controlled