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  • Essay / Rudy Garcia - 661

    If Aldous Huxley lived today, he would have a distaste for mass culture in all its public-pleasing forms. He liked to be alone. It would be difficult for Aldous Huxley to identify today's media and culture. Decades ago, there was no Facebook, no Instagram, no Twitter. None of the social media we have today existed in Aldous Huxley's time. Would he be a totally different man if he were around at that time? Ten years ago, Aldous Huxley said: "I find watching horse races or football matches less enjoyable as an occupation than the acquisition and coordination of knowledge." » In Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World", Huxley constructs a future in which the global government exercises control through test tube cloning. Rather than using fear, Huxley's book revolves around sexual pleasure. Huxley creates a world of recreational sex. Everyone works but they have a lot of free time and play. They play games such as electromagnetic golf and centrifugal Bumble puppy. Huxley knew that technology would be a major part of our society in the future, and he was right. In fact, technology has come a long way, much further than Huxley expected. People are buying their children a tablet or iPad from a very young age. In Huxley's time, people did not have the technology we have today. Nowadays, people use the Internet every day. Like social media, music or news. People didn't have this opportunity in the past. Technology is slowly destroying the minds of our children. Huxley wrote this book in the 1930s and 1940s. Before he wrote his novel “Brave New World,” it was the beginning of a global depression. It was the American stock market crash. During the stock market crash, he realized that ...... middle of paper ...... was growing up, he was also different. Huxley believes that if one is unique, one has freedom. Why try to be like everyone else, everyone has their own personality. In our society, people would find it oddly strange to see a mother trying to have sex with her own son. In the novel, Lenina begins dating Henry Ford, and when she meets Bernard, she begins dating him. When Lenina traveled to the wilderness reserves, she met her son whom she had not seen in years. She thought it was love at first sight, but Jean le Sauvage, her son, recognized his mother. He refused to do anything unnecessary or sexual with his mother. Huxley's message to us is an interesting statement. How come he can see our future from his surroundings? When he wrote Brave New World, it took a few years before Adolf Hitler became dictator..