... sought to write about pure utopian societies. Huxley was one of those writers who created this futuristic world in which every person was grown from test tubes, conditioned biologically and psychologically, and then divided by caste. The castes range from highest intelligence levels (Alpha's) to moron intelligence levels (Epsilon ... as opposed to long-term pleasures (striving for big goals). Majority of these basic pleasures are physical; sex is the most used and simple pleasure for the people of the State. Sex to them is just something they do everyday and there is nothing attached to i...

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... , but its overarching plan for moral, social, and cultural improvement actually results in dystopian themes such as loss of individuality and brainwashing. In the World State, a person's life begins in a test tube when they are genetically engineered to fit into the structured caste system, and one's fate is predetermined by a scientist in the Central London Hatchery. The lowest caste is the ... Epsilon?). However, The Controllers have found ways around this consisting of personality conditioning, drugs called Soma, distracting activities like Obstacle Golf and Feelies (movies involving ...

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... my opinion on the book and what I thought of it. Brave New World starts you off in a laboratory where they are making artificial babies or what I like to call them test tube babies. Lenina is a woman in this society that sometimes just doesn't understand why they do certain things in her society. Her first attraction is to a guy in her society ... had to say they convinced her and her son to come back to the perfect society with them. John disliked the outside world very much. Lenina tried to engage in sex with John, but John really loved Lenina. He learned how to express himself in thi...

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... on grades and not the material or the knowledge that we gain. We are measured on testing and not on knowledge. I really dislike this because I could not pass a multiple-choice test if my life depended on it. I do however understand the information and can apply it to life. Leaving concerns of a silly letter grade on a piece of paper. Substitution of non ... . Control seems to be the last part of McDonaldization control is slowed from birth-death and back to food production it even goes to the extent of people choosing the sex of their own child as well as living longer then ever imagined...

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... world is slowly approaching the extremities from Huxley's Brave New World. Our world has slowly begun to enter Huxley's world. Sharla Miller of Gillette, Wyoming was able to choose the sex of her baby though the PGD gender selection system. The controversy lies here: When is using this technology pushing the thin line between preserving one's health to give them a chance ... . This is how our society is similar to the Fordian's. They are able to have "Community, Identity, Stability" via decanting. But their stability and identities is fake; made up in test tubes in a factory-like atmosph...

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