Brave new world
Aldous Huxley, the author of the science fiction novel Brave New World made predictions regarding scientific discovery and social morality. All though most science fiction authors make predictions for the future, Huxley was particularly good at it. It may not seem blatantly obvious at first glance of reading Brave New World, but after closer studies you can see that many things he wrote that may have seemed completely fictional are not to far from the truth in today’s society. Considering the fact that the first copies of Brave New World were printed in 1932 it makes Huxley’s brave predictions seem pretty astonishing. Not only were his scientific predictions some what accurate, but his predictions he made on social morality to a certain extent, came true. The first scientific advance that Huxley hit one was hypnopaedia, also know as sleep-learning. In Brave New World it was used to warp people brain to think what ever the hypnopaedia suggested. It manipulated children at a young age to thing what ever they wanted them to think, like, and dislike. The director in Brave New world when talking about the hypnopaedia methods they use mentioned, "The child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the sug
One of the moral issues that Huxley covered in his novel was the freedom of sex. In his novel people openly had sex and even orgies without second thought. Just by a person screaming out orgy-porgy, it would send the people into a sexual frenzy. Huxley wrote his novel in the twenties, when sexual activity was almost strictly monogamous relationships. Society has formed to be much more open and acceptable of sex. A psychologist by the name of John Chapman said “Sexual promiscuity appears to be a much more frequent activity now then it was in the Thirties” (Chapman). The US is currently a country were sexual freedom is very high, thus being one of the reasons for our rapid population increase. In America the ethical moral standard has seem to do a one-hundred and eighty degree turn since the day of Huxley, but some how he hinted towards it some eighty years ago in his writings. It may not be as extreme as Huxley thought of it as, but the way sexuality has increased in the last hundred years his thoughts of the future might be a reasonable ones. Of course there was not the issue of pregnancy to deal with in Huxley’s Brave New World, but then again today there a ways to limit pregnancy to. Today there are birth-control pills to stop pregnancy and even abortions to stop the birth of a baby. So Huxley may not be to far off with test tube babies either. After all it is only a matter of time when the world can just not function due to a unhealthy population. gestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State" (Huxley, 16). However, hypnopaedia is not far from happening these days of course in different reasons. Instead of warping peoples minds it would be used to help people intelligence. People sleep on average twenty-two years in there life and people are constantly trying to develop a way to use nighttime as a time for learning. Although hypnopaedia is not widely practiced today it
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