Scientific Advancement In Brave New World

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Scientific Advancements in Brave New World vs. Modern Day We aren’t, in many ways, close to the set idea of social conditioning that was presented in Brave New World. Social conditioning is teaching individuals in a society to act in a certain way that is approved by the society as a whole. The kind of social conditioning that is weaved into the society in Brave New World revolves around the idea that they are to think of the society as a whole and not about themselves. Americans today are self-absorbed, we teach children to share but what do adults share? We won’t share cars, money, or even our houses. How are little children supposed to learn to share if all they see is adults being stingy with their materialistic objects? A lot of generations …show more content…

Surprisingly fifty two percent of baby boomers (ages 50-64) are on their phones during meals. Millennials (ages 21-34) and teenagers had the lowest amount of demographics say that they have technology-free meals. There is a common misconception that teenagers are obsessed with their phones, in fact ‘Teenagers check their phones 150 times per day, marketers tell us.’(Mayyasi) When it comes time to eat meals with family, teenagers and millennials stay off of technology. Why do baby boomers have the highest percentage of people that are on their phones during a meal? These numbers take into account if they are on technology most of the baby boomers who said that they use technology during meals are older couples who watch the news or other television programs while they are …show more content…

The babies are no longer born in the womb, which means that women no longer get pregnant, instead they are grown in state hatcheries and are distributed into different groups that determine what there life will be like. This will determine what they look like and who they interact with, a deltas with deltas and alphas with alphas sort of situation, this will also determine which kind of jobs they land, alphas are seen as the ‘top dog’ of the community because that is what the government wants the society to see them as. Alphas tend to land the jobs like working in the government or the high paid salary jobs. Deltas, which are the lowest of the social chain, land the jobs nobody thinks about like picking up the trash. The deltas can be perceived as the modern day poverty stricken

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