American physicist and nobel prize recipient Steve Weinberg once claimed that “ for good people to do evil things, it takes religion”, but what he failed to recognize is that it not only takes ‘good people’, but for a religion to have it’s effects, it needs an institution. It takes a village to raise a child, and so it takes a religious dogma to breed toxic mindsets. Fordianism is that institution, and in Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley uses the psudeoreligion Fordianism to emphasize the need for human kind to have a sense of purpose, and how that can be taken advantage of and satirized in today’s religious culture .
Ford is the dominant practice and praised deity in the book, and it’s religion is organized in a way to preserve and comfort, as …show more content…
There are people out there in the world taking advantage of those who are desperate and weak, those who can’t decipher up from down, left from right, stuck so deep in a rut of misery, that those who practice institutionalization capitalize on that. This is where Televangelism comes to play. Televangelism is a dated but still booming mini-economy that plays on peoples hopes, similar to Fordism in Brave New World, and coaxes them into submission to sacrifice their money, privacy, and valuable time. And to make matters worse, it’s perfectly legal. If America is not careful, it could evolve into a super power much like what is seen in Brave New World, where religion is cast out all together, and all that remains is an empty shell with disease infecting the insides. That disease being institutionalization. Huxley was aware of this while writing this book, and even drew some inspiration from his brother from his writings titled “What Dare I Think?”, a social commentary book on the ease of institutionalization of modern religion, and how, when put to good use, can be
Ford is the dominant practice and praised deity in the book, and it’s religion is organized in a way to preserve and comfort, as …show more content…
There are people out there in the world taking advantage of those who are desperate and weak, those who can’t decipher up from down, left from right, stuck so deep in a rut of misery, that those who practice institutionalization capitalize on that. This is where Televangelism comes to play. Televangelism is a dated but still booming mini-economy that plays on peoples hopes, similar to Fordism in Brave New World, and coaxes them into submission to sacrifice their money, privacy, and valuable time. And to make matters worse, it’s perfectly legal. If America is not careful, it could evolve into a super power much like what is seen in Brave New World, where religion is cast out all together, and all that remains is an empty shell with disease infecting the insides. That disease being institutionalization. Huxley was aware of this while writing this book, and even drew some inspiration from his brother from his writings titled “What Dare I Think?”, a social commentary book on the ease of institutionalization of modern religion, and how, when put to good use, can be