"Why wont you date me? Are you sick?" "No, I just don't like you."

After reading Brave New World, all of its startling subjects began to roll around in my head. The fact that people, instead of being born, are created in labratories. The way drugs and casual sex are just seen as natural as breathing. The method in which the society is broken up into classes, before they are even able to think for themselves. All of these things that seem so unorthodix and astonishing compared to today's society are not in fact that far off point. Science is making new strides, drugs and casual sex is something very common among people, we've been put in social classes for years.

A passage from Huxley's book caught my eye and seemed almost humorous to me. It is a scene in which Henry Foster is trying to get Lenina to go out with him. He invites her to see a feely with him, but she declines, still hung up over John.

"'You're not feeling ill are you?' he asked, a trifle anxiously, afraid that she might be suffering from one of the few remaining infectious diseases."(186)

I found it comical how in that society, declining any invitation of sorts meant only one thing: Illness. Whereas today, a female could say no for several reasons. Just one of the few dividing lines between our world and Huxley's world.