Sunday, August 8, 2010
what are we in for?
People do not realize the changes the world goes through . The changes people go through. Everything from ethics to trends change. What made me think of this was, Brave New World . When the Director was talking about the past with the boys and they were outside and the children were mating. At first I was thinking “ CHILDREN MATING?!”. Then I read further about what the director was telling the boys. He was saying that the past is forgotten. History is not taught to the children. The reason being because of the changes that occurred. The director was saying that in the past, it was looked down upon when children 16 years old mated. The boys he was talking to were puzzled and stunned at what the Director had told them. This made me think about the past and how when a man and woman went on a date, they were chaperoned. Look at where we are now. Teens are drinking, smoking and doing many other things behind their parents backs. This made me think about the future. If now, us as a society have changed dramatically, how much will we change in the future? Will they be good changes or will we keep going in the same direction? These things I pondered as I was reading Brave New World. Personally I am a little afraid and excited of what the future can bring. What is your take on this?
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Well, to answer your questions Gabby you would have to look at it from a scientific point of view with 1930's morals.
ReplyDeleteIf you remember the notes we took on Freud in Ms. Sweick's class then you would realize that, psychologically, the children's actions are not meant to be alarming. The only thing that makes us raise a brow at Huxley's mention of child sexuality is our present-day society's ideas of morality and what is right or wrong.
I think Huxley used this first example to make us realize that once our beliefs fade away, then a human returns to being an easily manipulated animal, albeit an intellegent one, but still an animal none the less.
About your questions of society's change in the future, I think it all depends on what is deemed "normal" or "moral" by the media. It's turning out to be a "monkey see, monkey do" kind of world.
There are many things that can be taken into account here. In the "good ol' days" of our grandparents, yes, they were chaperoned. Today, teenagers go on dates and do unspeakable acts. *GASP!*
ReplyDeleteNow wait a minute... But in the "good ol' days", wasn't it accepted that a 16 year old girl get married to a well-off 20 year old man? She would be a housewife who never went to college, while he brought home the bacon. They would raise maybe five children. Back then, for the bride's parents, that was lucky. Today, that's a pedophilia lawsuit.
Now back to the teenagers. Premarital sex is now less frowned upon now-a-days. This is because there are several methods of contraception; something our grandparents lacked besides abstinence.
So basically, it's a give-and-take, cause-and-effect situation here; everything has a consequence. If you're scared about the future of your children, Gabby, don't be... because, to society, whatever is happening... will be ACCEPTED.
I completely agree with Mark's comment. Just like right now, we are scared for the future but we're content with the present. Most people feel like they have nothing to question about the world right now because society accepts so many ideas that were feared years before.
ReplyDeleteGabby, you're right. The world is changing at an exponential rate. Now to answer your question...in what direction will these changes take our society? To project what the future holds, we must of course consider the past. The 20s held girls who didn't show their ankles (which were considered "private"), but were impregnated behind their parents backs. The 50s were characterized by more casual, intimate relations, but girls still fooled around behind their parent's backs. Nowadays, there is hardly a need for a girl to fool around behind her parents backs, with mothers readily providing their children with birth control, thus implying that they are at ease with their child being sexually active. The constant of course is sex, but the variable is how society deals with it. The past has indicated bad changes, and if you ask me, the future forebodes the same.
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