Brave New World: Blog #2

One of the difficult questions to answer about this book is why all of this is so very bad. Many people have described Huxely's vision of the future as "horrifying" However, the fact remains that everyone in the society is really happy, really content, really without war, or pain, or suffering. So, what's so bad about it, really? It's often an easy answer to feel but a difficult one to verbalize. Respond to this issue. If you want to say it's not so bad, and you really mean it, that's okay too. Just be specific and thoughtful.

It's true that Huxely has embedded this World State society with the good things from our society today, which would give us the illusion of Huxely's future society isn't so bad. However, there are still some issues that I feel make this society "horrifying". And, the reason why I say this is because our society has conditioned us with customs and morals that make this society seem wrong. One of the biggest problems with this society to me is that they are conditioned to not be curious, to explore, or learn new things. They don't realize all the opportunities and experiences they are missing. So, with that in mind, their personal freedoms are more limited. Also, I don't like the fact that everyone believes that anything that's not part of their society is wrong! I mean, sure there are people in our world that are hard core believers in their traditions that they would discriminate others for not believing with them. But, at least, it's not everyone! There are societies and cultures in our world that still leave wiggle room to be open minded and respect others beliefs and believe what you want to believe. And, my final thought for now about this question is that I don't like how all of history is wiped out from the "general public" of the World State. it's scary to think about because in the future, it's like we never existed. To the World State, they believe that it's always been that way since Henry Ford! (Praise Our Ford! lol) So, indeed this question about everything about Huxely's future is bad is difficult, but the reasons i just mentioned are what I came up with off the top of my head.

Brave New World: Blog #1

Obviously, none of Huxley’s predictions have come true exactly. For that matter, none of The Jetson’s or Back to the Future’s predictions have come true exactly. Predicting the future is a tricky business, whether done seriously or in jest. However, there are elements of truth in Huxley’s vision of the world. Discuss some of these. Which aspects of Brave New World’s society seemed most relevant in 2009? Which most far-fetched? Why?

Huxely has made some extreme predictions about what the future would be like. Most of his predictions aren't true. However, there are a couple parts of Huxely's World State society that is already happening now in 2009. A lot of it revolves around procreation. We have developed multiple forms of birth control. We also have ways to create babies outside of the womb. It's very similar to the Huxely's vision of bottle babies. But, there were some predictions that did seem very far-fetched. For example, the annihilation of all history. That's seems ridiculous. Also, the fact that everyone is pre-destined into a caste (social class) that they never can get out of. And, finally, another outrageous vision of the future as to be stopping all forms of religion and worshiping Henry Ford?! I find that highly unlikely. But, in general, there are some aspects in the society of Brave New World that can relate to our society in 2009. The advancement of technology has become more rapid in the past century and at this rate, we'll discover much more new exciting things about our world that we live in. And, I believe with this advancement in technology, we will start to live much easier lives as well as attaining a better understanding of our world. I still think that Huxely's vision of the future is a little out there. But, who knows what the future will bring? We certainly don't...