Moral Standards In Brave New World

In the novel Brave New World Huxley attempts to prophesize how our future society will become from where its current path was going, given the social influences and technological advances of his time. Although some of these prophecies have come true, such as a great increase in sexual freedom, the humanlike qualities that differentiate us from other species, such as science, art, and religion have not completely been forgotten like it has in the people of World State. Throughout the dystopian novel Brave New World Huxley goes to the extreme and takes out all forms of compassion and interests in our civilization, leaving the reader with a world full of regulated, inhuman human beings; however, as technology continues to progress eighty years …show more content…
Huxley’s idea was that with all the change currently going on, all the old ideas will be lost and new ideas will replace them – out with the old and in with the new. Huxley emphasizes this idea when an elementary class chants in unison “Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better …" (Huxley 54). This adage gives the idea that new is always better, and old things, along with philosophies, should be thrown away. This idea seems to be truer now than ever, with new and improved products being made every day, and old technologies being quickly replaced by new technologies. Huxley was right about another thing: we are a lot more liberated when it comes to sexuality now, compared to society in Huxley’s times (just not exactly the way Huxley predicted it would be). Although “surreptitious auto-erotism and homosexuality” are normal in our society, many of the sexual actions looked down upon back then are still looked down upon now, such as “elementary sex”, and hopping from person to person. Even with all the conditioning, Lenina admits “[She] hadn’t been feeling keen on promiscuity lately”, showing that human nature to find a mate cannot be fully conditioned out of …show more content…
He takes away common scientific and philosophical ideas that allow people to question why certain things happen, leading to not a civilization, but a complete homogenization of people who think exactly the same way. In the beginning of the novel, eggs are created and modified in bulk to create an ideal human being made for a specific mechanical purpose, like an assembly line making a particular type of car. The meaning and value of life had been destroyed in order have a more efficient society with no problems. Huxley basically creates a hybrid of communism and capitalism, except with human beings instead of currency: the government makes the supply of humans needed to sustain their society, giving them the exact same qualities and requirements as other humans within their specific tier (Smith). This idea seems illogical, seeing how we have had these ideas for many millennia throughout human history; however, given these rapid changes that the general populace has had, it is no surprise that Huxley believed that this complete flip in humanity could happen (Szalai). Nevertheless, human individuality would never allow for this to happen. Unless a few can get away with mass genocide and murder every individual who would not benefit their desire to homogenize a genetically modified population, society would never allow for each individual’s values to be forcibly stripped from their