In Brave New World, Huxley takes a
crack at nearly every aspect of society,
namely:
- Our addiction to pleasure in physical,
emotional, and religious forms - Our blind belief in
science and technology to replace traditional customs and
values - Our addiction to entertainment, whether it be
sports (centrifugal bumble-puppy) or visual mass media
(feelies) - Our over-medication (soma) using
pharmaceuticals - Our overuse of birth control (Malthusian
belts) - Our educational system which conditions students
to hate books and nature (neo-Pavlovian conditioning) - Our
statified society in which a small percentage of the wealthy control the other, more
populous workers - Our abuse of government power that
wishes to bring about communism, socialism, or globalization (one state, World
Controller) - Our attacks upon individualism (John) and the
glorification of the group and tribalism and sameness (identity, stability,
community) - Our abuse of natural resources to serve our
industrial complex (building huge stadiums in the middle of nowhere so that we expend
many resources to get there)
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