Censorship In Brave New World

Science Fiction can be seen as fictional but also suggestive of our world today, with implications of science, technology and history. With technology growing at a rapid pace, there may be a need to control what is put out. As technology is growing, so is the government with their need to censor certain parts of technology and its bearings. This can be seen in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, citizens are conditioned to pay no mind to the past, allowing the government to control and censor certain parts of history. The amount of information they/re allowed to know is very limited, as it also is in our world today.

Huxley’s idea of governmental control over information suggest that in our current time, we are moving away from history

In ancient societies, for example China, censorship was considered a legitimate instrument for regulating the moral and political life of the population. The origin of the term censor can be traced to the office of censor established in Rome i 443 BC. ” This quote explains that we may know less about our history than we think. Since the beginning of an established government, they have been retaining information from us for various unknown reasons. Similar to our world today, many citizens from Huxley’s Brave New World don't even know any part of their history. They are conditioned to pay no mind by the government and go by their everyday life. We too may be conditioned since long ago, but now it’s prominent that the government retains and ensors our information and is keeping us from knowing the truth about

This is shown in the article, “Do You Know Your Own History? Lessons From My Father. ” stating, “I was saddened by a reality that maybe I don’t know my history. Maybe we as African Americans haven’t found our full voice yet because we don’t know. We don’t know how many great contributions, inventions, discoveries or innovations our own people have made. And not just contributions to the United States but contributions to the world. ” The reality is, due to our hardships in history such as slavery and discrimination, many African Americans may not know their own cultural history. This is due to the current governmental circumstances at the time and the government’s decision to decide that African Americans at the time did not deserve a history. Similarly, in Brave New World, their government decided from the start that they did not deserve to know their own history. Evidently, this led to many lead to the fall of history and as a result, many may not know what happened. In the long run, the piece of history that was censored by the government could disappear