... knows nothing more or nothing less than what is presented to you through hypnopaedia, has no voice in society. Everyone and everything is completely controlled. This scenario replicates the World State. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley centers around the unattainable idea of a utopia; however, the society described better reflects a dystopia and was written to convey a warning message to the ... readers in 1932 and future audiences. The World State, the functional society in Brave New World, seems Utopian in theory, but its overarching plan for moral, social, and cultural impro...

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... that Brave New World criticizes most sharply. It is important to recognize the distinction between science and technology. Whereas the State talks about progress and science, what it really means is the bettering of technology, not increased scientific exploration and experimentation. The state uses science as a means to build technology that can create a seamless, happy, superficial world through things such as the "feelies." ... uses the results of scientific research, inasmuch as they contribute to technologies of control, but does not support science itself. The Consumer Society. It ...

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