Friday, August 20, 2010
A Huxelyean World
The further I got into the book Amusing Ourselves to Death the more I realized how close our world is to becoming a Huxelyean world. I thought to myself about all the similarities between the novel Brave New World and our society, and honestly the similarities are frightening. It devastates me to imagine how naive and incoherent humanity will become. The worst part is that it seems like once we reach this point there is not turning back. The society in Brave New World is a perfect example of this. Once they reached the point where everyone was satisfied no changes were ever made to their culture. Their moral values and ethics would never change because everyone is satisfied, naive, engineered to think a certain way and if anyone does think differently they are exiled. My point is that once our culture reaches a state like the one found in Brave New World all hopes of a culture with intellect is lost. What does the possibility that our world may become a Huxelyean world mean to you?
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I was also surprised how we are rapidly turning to a Huxlelyean world after reading the chapter. At first I thought that the both are completely different but after reading the chapter I realized we share many similarities. For example, I saw that our soma is the television in which we are evading thoughts through entertainment and our politics and religion is just a stage show.It is a scary thought to know that we are turning more and more like Huxley's world and I am not sure if their is a solution to this problem.
ReplyDeleteOnce our world evolves into a Huxleyan one, i see no point to living anymore. Afterall, no one would be serving a greater purpose; it would be merely organized survival with a little entertainment sprinkled on top. Maybe that would look appetizing to a Huxleyan offspring, but not to us.
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