... making the outcome better than it was before. The idea is to pay a price to achieve what one may want. But eventually a line must be drawn as to what price is worth paying in order to achieve that goal. In The life of Galileo and Brave New World, the goal is a stable society. The essential idea around these sacrifices is that no price ... the society. No price is worth paying for a stable society if it undermines the truth because eventually the truth will come out and that same "stable- society, will eventually crumble. In Brave New World, the society is centered on the goal of a compl...

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... hints that it is used all the time to suppress any bad feelings had as well as to have a good time. Drugs have become in this society a necessity. Somas are the ultimate anti-depressant, a medical breakthrough meant to control humanity from feeling anything beyond euphoric and ultimately ... Another symbol illustrating the theme is the fertilization process. When the director is lecturing the students, he explains one of the processes of creating humans in the lab. "Bokanovsky's process one egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will di...

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In today's post-modern society, there are many strong guiding forces influencing every single aspect of a person's socialization and development as an individual. The impact of globalization, for instance, is a latent product of our drive for efficiency and productivity, as an entire civilization. For example, a single chip can replace an entire assembly line ... habitude for things to be relative and fall into an equilibrium with each other without intervention. What mankind has caused by intervening in natural evolution is the creation of artificial means to acquire the essence of nature. T...

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