Is it really so bad?

The “New World,” Aldous Huxley portrays in this book seems like the perfect world, and it so different from our world and it is in fact not that great. The fact that this society is so fake and perfect makes it so bad, and nobody should have to live in a world where they are conditioned to not think freely. I value freethinking and so do a lot of people in our society. In a world with no war, and no disease or suffering is not living in a real world; you have to see those things in life in order to become your own individual. How can you truly be happy, if you don’t know how to appreciate what you have? This is the problem with Huxley’s characters, their idea of happiness is something that has been pounded into the heads and is something that they are conditioned to believe. This society is so bad because it denies the people inside it to think on their own and be themselves, and do what makes them happy. Another thing that these people are missing out on is actually loving another person and not belonging to someone else. This society contradicts this society in so many ways; they all belong to one another yet they have no personal connections to anybody else. They can’t be mother, they can’t get married, they can’t love another person without anybody thinking it’s heretical, and they can’t even be by themselves. You can belong to someone else and not love them, but that still doesn’t give you anything in return, in this world all that gives you is physical pleasure and nothing else. Without all of these emotional connections, and war and other things that people deal with in real life, this is in fact not a perfect world. I say that this is not a perfect world and it is bad because in this world these people have no idea that they don’t have access to anything that can actually better themselves or develop their own thoughts.

Huxley's Predictions

In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley makes a lot of predictions about the future, and since we are in the future now we can obviously see that some of these predictions are not true. We are not born in bottles, or take soma, don't wear birth control belts, and we certainly don't worship Ford. Despite all of this, some of Ford's predictions are accurate. We have more effective forms of birth control, we have the technology to make a test-tube baby (which is similar to a bottle baby), and a lot of us still worship some godlike figure or we have an idea of what our religion is. One thing that I think will never happen that Ford said would happen is that History is totally obliterated off the Earth, and all traces of historical figures and events have been wiped away, leaving hardly any evidence behind. I think that Huxley's society does have some elements of truth in it. I think that the idea of bokanovskifying eggs is something that would be very interesting to see, but too many people in our society today would be against that idea. However, something to keep in mind is that we do have some technology that can alter a baby to be what we want it to be. Some people think that this is unethical, which is why I think that this is a big piece of their society, but is not a big piece of our society in 2009. Also, another idea that I think is too irrelevant is how the classes are separated, and how the society in Huxley's book has "Savages." I think that we have people who are uncivilized in our society today, but we don't barricade them from the rest of the world and treat them like they are animals in the zoo. I do think that transportation is one relevant part of Huxley's story, and although ours in 2009 is not as advanced as Huxley's, almost everybody has a car. And if somebody doesn't use a car, then they use public transportation. We can also get to places relatively fast and without too many delays. I do think that one idea in Huxley's society, which is that everybody belongs to everyone else, is interesting, but that kind of thing could only be possible if everyone were the same, had the same ideas, and obviously our society tends to embrace diversity. Our society is also based on the idea of a family, whereas Huxley's society is not.
A lot of Huxley’s ideas seem a bit too absurd, but I think that Huxley’s idea of advanced technology is definitely something that is relevant to our society today in 2009. We do embrace technology, and maybe someday we will all fly helicopters, and maybe there might be some more test-tube babies. I think that in our society, we have the tools to make our society better through technology, but we will not take it to the extremes that Aldous Huxley has