Thursday, August 12, 2010

Wishes to Modify

I found it quiet interesting the methods the author used in Brave New World to convey his feelings towards technology and the course it would take in the near future. Although seeming to me as to much of an over exaggeration for my taste the use of "Ford" did catch my interest for some time. Throughout the novel Huxley is constantly replacing all things religion with Fordism and anything having to do with a deity wit Ford. He even goes so far as to use phrases containing the word god replaced with, what would you guess, Ford. At first this strikes me as odd seeing how it is suppose to be a world completely removed of religion right? But once considering the subject it becomes evident of a different meaning meant. An idea that perhaps that technology is becoming a larger and larger part of our life and that eventually if not already it will consume our lives as a whole. Even maybe to a point that we will start to regard it with such reverence as if it was a religion. Replacing deities with these machines creators and religion with the use and celebration of these machines.

2 comments:

  1. The religion is not removed, but the Ford-ism came in the place of Christianity, Buddhism, and other major and minor religions and cults. Ford is the new god to the people of the new world, and Ford symbolizes the new interests that Huxley thought the future generations would be buried under, for he saw the improving of the technology. Yes, the technology is "becoming a larger and larger part of our life," as you said, and I believe it has already consumed some of us as a whole, whether the consuming was wreaked by work, or just because of boredom.

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  2. I say that its is removed because all reverence of religion is not present with fordism or atleast not of the same genre. Also the same themes of religion is not given to Fordism it just in a way doesnt fit

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