Migration Towards the Brave New World
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, human society has had to struggle to adapt to new technology. There is a shift from traditional society to a modern one. Within the last ten years we have seen tremendous advances in science and technology, and we are becoming more and more socially dependent on it. In the Brave New World, Huxley states that we are moving in the direction of Utopia much more rapidly than anyone had ever anticipated. Its goal is achieving happiness by giving up science, art, religion and other things we cherish in our world. It is an inhumane society controlled by technology where human beings are produced on assembly line. His prophetic elements of human beings being conditioned, the concerns for the environment, importance of genetic engineering and reproduction, and our physical and mental development has now been one of the major factors that the governments, businesses and educational institutions are exploiting today. We are subconsciously moving to this bureaucracy of conformity, and Brave New World is a wake up call from our obsessions of standardization socially, economically and politically. The story took place in A.F (After Ford) 632, this is 632years after Ford has rele
This novel contributes to Huxley’s expression of his beliefs and concerns for our fast growing society in technology and science. Year by year we see more and more of Huxley’s fantasy becoming reality. He sense the danger of our Capitalist society, which is dependent on technology and becoming a dehumanizing force. He portrays the society negatively with people who depend on drugs that evoke pleasure, produce humans in factories, and conditioning that replaces families. Our history shows the evolution of the business process and the change in attitudes towards the society. It is bureaucracy where the citizens of Utopia are to conform to rules and regulations and hostile to change. We must ask ourselves, do we have as much freedom as we think we do? Are we much better off than we are before (in terms of wealth, happiness, etc)? Are we too reliant on technology and science? Where is our individuality? Where is the tradeoff? How can we change to stop ourselves from moving toward the so-called “Utopia”society? It seems that we too, are living in an incubator, trapped and conditioned, and we must do something to stop this from happening. Shaw,William H.., “The Nature of Capitalism”,in Business Ethics, 3rd ed., Wadworth, 1999, pp.124-152
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Approximate Word count = 1513
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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