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.