However, the vast majority of society shares this aspiration and this consequentially means that by probability, the vast majority are destined to not achieve any sense of satisfaction or completion with our goals. Not at all am I saying the key to happiness and success is to remove all sense of ambition, rather that people should differ their thinking in order to adapt their goals into something satisfying yet achievable. In order to address this issue society needs to abandon this existing stereotypical framework that associates happiness with power and wealth and alternatively find gratification from connection with people we truly admire and value. From the earliest times in the bible through to the more recent work of Fitzgerald we have seen example after example of excessive fame and wealth paving the path towards self-destruction and unhappiness. I ask of you to learn from the past.
Humanity’s Separation from Nature The gray unhappy air surrounds civilization as the pollution of human creations and discoveries tears us further and further from our natural beginnings. Nature no longer encompasses us with sunshine and beauty, left alone we become monsters in our outlook and attempt to take control of power we were never meant to have. With the use of drugs and the constant striving for upmost power to create living from dead we have destroyed our natural roots. Natural processes slowly disappear from the world around us, in Brave New World the Director says; "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" (1) This is a process where people are artificially made and conditioned into certain parts of society.
He explains that we will always be living on edge because we cannot predict what our future holds. He compares the difference in being a Theist verse Atheist; also he wants us to be honest with ourselves and stop practicing ritual that we don’t believe in but gravitate to when situations arise that we cannot find the answers to. He challenges us to come up with some realistic ceremonies that would “strengthen ourselves in our most testing and tragic times”. The author believes that your spirit and your soul do not live on after you die since they depend on each other to function. The human race will eventually no longer exist just like all others creations here on earth.
One example of bad criticism is from Infinity Book Reviews. Josh Barkman states, “ I really didn’t like the concept the author used for this series. He used the society’s (more specifically, the youth’s) desires to fit into their concept for ideal beauty, and created a world wherein turning “Pretty” was the ultimate achievement that can be attained in life. In this world, all of the “Uglies” undergo an operation when they come of age and turn into party-freak “Pretties” my feel is it down right degrading as a human being.” The reviewer shows he doesn’t like the way Westerfeld writes the novel by taking the concept of girl’s self-conscience and making a huge twist on it. Another bad critique of Uglies is from Imaginary Books.
It would be very prejudicial and people would stop caring for who you care and just look at what your hereditary traits say. In my opinion, this movie portrays very effectively what our society would come to if this happened. It is very sad to see how technology can destroy human nature just because people seek a god-like perfection that is actually
Vonnegut’s pessimistic attitude is geared harshly to the ideology on how everyone should be the same with no winners or losers, all having to succumb to being merely mediocre. When Harrison Bergeron reveals himself, it is at this point we are seeing Kurt Vonnegut’s voice and opinion being emitted from Bergeron. It reveals that Vonnegut being like Bergeron would die rather than continue to abide by a society sullied by hideous and unnecessary laws of
This is shown as dehumanization because it shows how the government thinks lesser of the public and think that they are easily replenished. Overall, Bradbury creates a dystopian novel using all of these themes and
Science, technology and social organisations may cease serving humanity, they may instead become our masters. In a society where discrimination is perfected by science and technology, humanity will fall under the reign of masters of discriminatory science. Our identity will fade in a society where science depicts who we are, humans will be segregated as the line between our identity in humanity and science disappears. Science and technology strip an individual’s fundamental right to privacy with no say in the matter, anyone and everyone can have access to intimate details leaving us with no privacy. Science ceases to serve humanity and instead creates the base of prejudice where love is no longer left to chance as the social norm, but gets individuals genetic codes to aid in decisions for love.
Huxley demonstrates how in mankind’s attempt to achieve a utopia, values such as freedom and nature may be given up, creating a ‘nightmarish’ world instead. “A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature.” Through the use of ridicule on how humanity tends to destroy all potential problems as opposed to actually facing them, Huxley displays that if humans continue this trend, then during mankind’s pursuit for a perfect world, nature as a whole may be completely destroyed, as it doesn’t aid the advance of society technologically. Furthermore, Huxley implicates that in order for society to achieve ‘absolute harmony’; one of the major sacrifices that must be made, is out freedom. “We also predestine and condition.” The words “predestine” and “condition” invokes feelings in the reader that lives are being controlled, and that decisions in the world are non-flexible and choices has been relinquished by
In which all humans can experience. “Art objects are those created to produce aesthetic pleasure by virtue of their form.”-Kant (pg. 50) Schopenhauer’s view of art is gloomy as opposed too pleasurable. He sees artist as tragic characters forced to tell the truth about humanity, yet doomed to fail. He reveals that truths contemplation of will is that reality is a mere illusion, and that all humanity is pointless, and that we are pawns in this never-ending game called life.