Aldous Huxley's Prophetic Vision of Genetic Engineering
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In 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote “Brave New World” in which he delivers a valuable message. In “Brave New World”, he describes the world and what it will become in the future. The society was overrun by technology and that the human race has lost their individuality, freedom, and identity as human beings. He predicted a world where humans would be born genetically engineered, divided into classes, and controlled by a drug called Soma. Today, scientists can do just what Aldous Huxley said would happen in the future.
In “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley envisions a world where technology has become so great that it controls human beings and what makes us human. Humans living in “Brave New World” have been born out of the womb by test tubes or being cloned. A subconscious persuasion and mind-altering drug called Soma is used to stimulate and calm people who use this drug. The world state in “Brave New World” is focused more on security, order, and rank. Their world is more technologically advanced and much protected. They have no disease, no warfare, and no sadness, but most importantly humans sacrificed their sense of emotion, thought, free will, and everything that makes one human to achieve this state. Aldous Huxley’s vision of this world technology was far beyond his time despite being written in 1932. “Brave New World” technology is so advanced they can predetermine your intelligence “…we don’t need human intelligence.” (Chapter 1). Even when sleeping you can memorize because a recording is played over and over again and teaches and conditions one, which is called hypnopaedic. The technology overpowers the uses of one’s mind and doesn’t give them the freedom to express their feelings. “All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” (Chapter 1).
There is a difference between the world state and the savage reservation. The world state is a very technologically advanced. The world state doesn’t have books, sports, poetry, or...
In “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley envisions a world where technology has become so great that it controls human beings and what makes us human. Humans living in “Brave New World” have been born out of the womb by test tubes or being cloned. A subconscious persuasion and mind-altering drug called Soma is used to stimulate and calm people who use this drug. The world state in “Brave New World” is focused more on security, order, and rank. Their world is more technologically advanced and much protected. They have no disease, no warfare, and no sadness, but most importantly humans sacrificed their sense of emotion, thought, free will, and everything that makes one human to achieve this state. Aldous Huxley’s vision of this world technology was far beyond his time despite being written in 1932. “Brave New World” technology is so advanced they can predetermine your intelligence “…we don’t need human intelligence.” (Chapter 1). Even when sleeping you can memorize because a recording is played over and over again and teaches and conditions one, which is called hypnopaedic. The technology overpowers the uses of one’s mind and doesn’t give them the freedom to express their feelings. “All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” (Chapter 1).
There is a difference between the world state and the savage reservation. The world state is a very technologically advanced. The world state doesn’t have books, sports, poetry, or...