What Are The Similarities Between Brave New World Today

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley provides us with a strange, yet futuristic world that clearly represents our society today, according to Neil Postman. Brave New World, depicts a semi-utopian society, where there is nothing but happiness amongst individuals. Through multiple assertions, Neil Postman is able to draw parallels from Huxley’s illustrations of an utopian society to our contemporary times. I agree with Postman’s remarks because they significantly reflect similarities between Brave New World and our modern society through the uses of media and technology. Brave New World contemplates our contemporary society through the conflicting topic of social media. Postman states in his personal assertions that “As he (Huxley) saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” His comparison between both societies tend to demonstrate the lost of

Huxley suggests that Brave New world became a futuristic society through advances. What Postman feared the most was that “there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one”. We are slowly developing into a futuristic society that relies heavily on technology. One example would be the fact that the majority, if not the whole United States, has a phone or a device. Through those devices we are not only able to communicate faster, but we are able to seek the internet and gather information with a touch of a button. In the novel, the director informs the nurses that "they'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers”(20). Everything is being served in a silver platter for us as technology advancements increase in their capabilities to do so. Postman and Huxley greatly point out the fact that our society is a representation of Brave New World due to technology