Mrs. Burrows
ENG 4U-41
Chelsea Poshni
Wednesday July 29th 2015
Ultimate Destruction of the Brave New World In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to input the belief that every single invention or improvement is for the betterment of mankind and is only an instrument for ultimate destruction. “We are,” he said, “on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will require all out intelligence and all out good will.” Not only in the book, but in real life aswell, one can see that this belief is true. The first example in the book is the way in which babies are “born.” The intense fertilizing, decanting, and conditioning processes is directly used to produce and control the 5 groups of people in society. …show more content…
The general use and abuse of tools such as the internet is one piece of evidence. The amount of knowledge and information that is found there is rendered all but useless for the majority of people use the internet as those in Brave New World would have, for simple pleasure. Pornography, violence and other such things actually pollute the good that the internet can bring us. The overuse of the internet as a communicative tool is harmful to us. Yes, it is a great thing that anyone from anywhere can meet someone from some other place at the click of a little button, but the internet has taken away much of the personal contact that makes talking and other forms of communication so …show more content…
For as many innovations that have already proven to be in the best interests of those who take advantage of them, there is an equal amount of innovations that have already proven to be destructive. One such field of innovation is that of automobiles. So many things have been done to cars today to make them safer, airbags, side-impacts resistance beams, and so on. However, an equal number of innovations have been made to make cars have more power and go faster. Couple that with the widespread overuse of drugs and alcohol and it is clear that these such innovations are that of
ENG 4U-41
Chelsea Poshni
Wednesday July 29th 2015
Ultimate Destruction of the Brave New World In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to input the belief that every single invention or improvement is for the betterment of mankind and is only an instrument for ultimate destruction. “We are,” he said, “on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will require all out intelligence and all out good will.” Not only in the book, but in real life aswell, one can see that this belief is true. The first example in the book is the way in which babies are “born.” The intense fertilizing, decanting, and conditioning processes is directly used to produce and control the 5 groups of people in society. …show more content…
The general use and abuse of tools such as the internet is one piece of evidence. The amount of knowledge and information that is found there is rendered all but useless for the majority of people use the internet as those in Brave New World would have, for simple pleasure. Pornography, violence and other such things actually pollute the good that the internet can bring us. The overuse of the internet as a communicative tool is harmful to us. Yes, it is a great thing that anyone from anywhere can meet someone from some other place at the click of a little button, but the internet has taken away much of the personal contact that makes talking and other forms of communication so …show more content…
For as many innovations that have already proven to be in the best interests of those who take advantage of them, there is an equal amount of innovations that have already proven to be destructive. One such field of innovation is that of automobiles. So many things have been done to cars today to make them safer, airbags, side-impacts resistance beams, and so on. However, an equal number of innovations have been made to make cars have more power and go faster. Couple that with the widespread overuse of drugs and alcohol and it is clear that these such innovations are that of