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.
So, to sum up freedom most pertains/explains in to the person or people itself. Independence, on the other hand, means a freedom with rules and regulations it pertains for the country. It is being free but always entails .great responsibilities. You’ll need to think twice for every action you want to do unlike in freedom you yourself will create your own limitations and just do what you want. Independence means standing by your own without depending onto others, you must be on yourself and should not rely to someone’s decision, support/influence.
So what do the effect of total isolation and the agent of socialization have on a person? The effect of total isolation is the main theme in the movie. Nell never learned the basic life skills any child, or person for that manner, should learn. There are developmental milestones everyone learns yearly on in life, such as cognitive, physical, and social. Nell was never exposed to these growing up.
None of the citizens in The Giver's community have ever experienced color, which surpresses their creativity at the root. Without something as simple as color affecting people's decisions, diversity, and creativity, life is dull before it even has the chance to become exciting. With Jonas and The Giver being the exceptions in the colorblind community, they are the only ones who realize what the entire society is missing. Jonas expresses his grief on the topic in the following quote: "Well ... "Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices!
They wrote the restrictive forces of the Constitution on something far more predictable, the meaning of freedom. They understood that times would change, and that breakthroughs would come in many forms and on many levels. They therefore constructed the Constitution on one thing that they knew would not change, and that is human nature. So when people say that our constitution is not relevant at all because of its age, most of our rights are declared on it and still is followed today. Therefore, these are rights that can’t be taken away or unalienable, unalienable rights are rights that are unable to be alienated, given up, or transferred to someone else.
In Anthem the people cannot choose their own jobs, it is all specified by the Council of Vocations and people have no say in it. All the ideas in the society are controlled by the Council of Scholar, they don’t accept changes. There are no families in this society, the children are separated from their mothers and they never know their parents. The government is their parent. This way government can control them and there is no rebellion.
Monoculturalism is believed not be a bad thing. Monoculturalism comes from growing up in one culture knowing only the perspectives of that country. If a person has never move or travel outside of the place they currently live or where they grew up, how can one expect them to know any other culture? The difference between monoculturalism and ethnocentrism is that the monoculturalist’s ego is not involved; he or she simples do not know that the whole world does not operate according to their own rule. I feel this is very sad when peoples cannot get out and
Upon the success of our experiment much depends, not only as regards our own welfare, but as regards the welfare of mankind. If we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn. There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither
The first question we have to consider when talking about socio-political power is: Why do they need this power? In A Brave New World the aim of the state apparatus is to preserve the stability of the hedonist society they have constructed. There is no dictator or oligarchy trying to accumulate power, since there is no opponent to fight against. For the sake of this stability they sacrifice, knowingly, passions, freedom and art. Mustapha Mond, one of the Controllers, sums up this preference: “But that’s the price we have to pay for stability.
Tradition and upbringing also plays a huge part in who we will all eventually become. In all honesty after you are grown up and just live your life how you were brought up, it all becomes so normal that you don’t realize you’re doing what society and the media says you’re “supposed” to do. There are few exceptions and I do include myself to be a part of said exception that doesn’t always grow up how the media says so. I believe there is nothing wrong with a woman having both feminine and masculine traits and this should not in any way intimidate men as it often does. Films and short commercial clips teach us that the man in the suit driving a nice car will ultimately get the gorgeous model to fall in love with him at the end as opposed to the waiter or bus boy in the background.