The Significance of Brave New World

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The Significance of a “Brave New World” Huxley is trying to get a lesson across, that technology is destroying the basics of society: family, cultural diversity, art, literature, science, religion and philosophy. He specifically uses John for this purpose. He also uses John to get his warning across about socialist and communist attitudes and to some degree his opposition to a capitalist consumer society. He uses some of the themes of the book to warn humanity as a whole about the use of technology to control society, the dangers of an all-powerful state and the incompatibility of happiness and truth. These warnings are relevant to today’s society because technology and media are changing the way we look at human feelings and rights, trying to avoid a society where people are not so much denied human rights such as free speech and expression but conditioned to not care. Other than the obvious Utopian references of a perfect society and everything being happy go lucky and on-the-surface and the themes of conditioning and prejudism, what else is there to "the Brave New World"? Family plays no role what so ever in Brave New World. No mother or fathers. Babies are born with no family. No dads, moms, siblings. They're on their own. They are brain washed to think that everyone belongs to everyone. They are encouraged to have meaningless sex. In our time we have morals. Most people disagree the idea of pre=marital sex. We think for ourselves. We stick with our families and love them and support them. The huge difference between the family society in Brave New World and our world.... would be that they drop all families and we have our families. Everyone depends on himself or herself and there is hardly any love for the people of Brave New World. Mothers and fathers are not important. Children are raised on their own with the help of adult's brain washing them to believe

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