![]() I mean, let’s pretend that you were created as a Gamma in this society. And this caste system has, in effect, created a very stable environment. This society has brought back a caste system. An Epsilon will not write the Great American Novel (even if novels weren’t banned), and an Epsilon will not discover a new way to streamline the reproduction process. The Epsilon will, to borrow a phrase from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, do all of Society’s Charlie Work. Society breeds into its progeny its potential: it will assign someone to be graded an Alpha-Plus that person will be given advantages over someone that is graded to be an Epsilon. Everything is perfectly regulated, down to the last gram of alcohol someone is going to inject into a fetus in order to get it to the correct IQ level. Think about it – in this society, life is created using an assembly line. Religion no longer worships deities it has instead deified Henry Ford and his assembly line. I mean, again, I’m looking at this book through 21 st-Century eyes and while I get that Huxley is using an extreme example to support his point, I still get an ick factor from thinking about it.Īnd Huxley’s point is this: he felt, back in 1932 (or whatever I said up above I’M NOT SCROLLING BACK UP THERE TO GET IT), he was afraid that humans would come to rely on science and materialism so much that it would take away everything from our daily lives. No, I’m not kidding, there is a part where children are encouraged to have ‘erotic play.’ I don’t really want the To Catch a Predator guy to come to my house, so I’m going to refrain from making the joke about erotic play and myself, and instead go DO NOT WANT. Sex is no longer related to reproduction – instead, children are conditioned to have sex without consequences. Reproduction of the species is now controlled by science and machines. The society of Brave New World stops evolving because it no longer has to it has reached stasis. I mean, I know he’s in charge of stuff, like controlling what people can read and write, and I know that there are laws because policemen show up at one point, but … I get the sense that government - any government – exists to provide structure to a larger body of homogeneous people, and that structure constantly evolves because we constantly evolve. Sure, there’s a Controller, but … I don’t know. In the society described by Brave New World – and I’m going to refer to it as a society and not a government, because I don’t really sense a ruling body in this society. That PSA was brought to you by the surprisingly-literate Sterling Malory Archer. As for Animal Farm, I know that *that’s* an allegorical novella about Stalinism, by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS! I don’t remember much of 1984, but I know it’s supposed to be against the futuristic society where government knows everything you do. This novel predates both 1984 and Animal Farm. And so, the world will never know …īrave New World was written in 1932 by Aldous Huxley, a British scholar. ![]() Note From the Future: As I proofread this before posting it, I realize that I never actually talk about this contentious part of our Tweetversation. ![]() PS – BEFORE I FORGET LIKE A HORRIBLE COLLABORATOR - Check out Erica’s review on Brave New World by clicking this link: CLICK. There’s a lot of things to discuss when it comes to Brave New World, but the discussion – as proven by Saturday’s Tweetversation between myself and Erica of NYC Bookworm – can become contentious. ![]() BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T), and now CYY is helping me with this review.īecause I don’t know which angle to tackle. What is with all the 90s nostalgia lately? My Friend Sarah was busting out the Cranberries the other day, I dug out a CD by a one-somewhat-hit wonder today to be the soundtrack to my cleaning (the super-obscure Jude go ahead, tell me you’ve heard of him. Ooh, WCYY decided to play “ Bound for the Floor” just as I sat down to write my review. ![]()
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