Brave New World Blog

This is definitely one of the most interesting books I've read in a while to say the least. Life in this "Brave New World" would not be much of a life at all. From birth your caste and rank in society are pre-determined, your job in society is already decided, people don't really have many options in life other than who to fornicate with which they seem to be doing a lot of. They coin the term "Every one belongs to every one else." Unbelievably it is looked down upon and thought of as suspicious if two people see each other too often. The D.H.C. would become wary that people should not become too intimate with each other. They don’t want people to form romantic relationships or relationships in general where any emotions are expressed; they just want the people to “try” each other out as often as possible.

Babies are manufactured by the thousands and just like a modern factory today productivity is of the utmost importance. The more babies they can produce per egg the happier the D.H.C. is. Babies are genetically manufactured. The best traits go to the alphas and betas while the less desirable traits go to the deltas, epsilons, and gammas. This is how class distinction is displayed; the lower castes’ seem to be shorter and dumber than the other ones. The castes’ are told repeatedly their position in society many times as are other things that the D.H.C. wants the respective babies of each caste to learn. “They’ll have that repeated forty or fifty times before the wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson” (28). The lessons are usually things that the State wants those specific babies to hate or love. These babies or embryos I should say are brainwashed before being hatched. They already have a mindset coming into the world and that is work, sex, buy stuff, soma, work, sex, buy stuff, and some more soma. There is no room for individuality in this world. The only individuality belongs to those who are genetically “altered” than the rest. They find that through their defects they become DIFFERENT.

Other than the genetically “altered” there is no individual thought; just a collective group thought. The people lead a happy life because they don’t know what is outside the cerebral walls the State has constructed. They are people without souls, without conscious’, without purpose. They might as well be brain dead people that are just doing the motions and not thinking. Just like when you wander off while reading; you still read the words you just don’t comprehend or understand them. They don’t know any better than to just do these simple things. They only emotions they express are happiness and sadness and there is always that get me up pill for the sadness.

What I also found shocking was the shock therapy that they performed on the children. They do this primarily to handpick what the babies will like and dislike. For example, words like family, mother, father, and love are thought of as atrocious words. WHAT! What happened to the good ole’ normal bad words like the f-word or the b-word. We think of these words as bad and not polite so we don’t use them (or try not to use them). Similarly the kids are taught from a young age that love, father, and mother are things that they don’t want to express or be when they get older. This is a very misconstrued place in which these people live in.