rudy Garcia

If Aldous Huxley was living today, he would have a distaste for mass culture in all of its crowd pleasing forms. He liked to stay to himself. It would be hard for Aldous Huxley to identify media and culture of today. Decades before had no Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. None of the social media’s we have now were around during Aldous Huxley’s time. Would He be a totally different man if he was around during this time? A decade ago Aldous Huxley said, ”I find the watching of horse races or football matches less agreeable as an occupation than the acquisition and coordination of knowledge.”

In Aldous Huxley’s book “Brave New World,” Huxley builds a future in which the global government exerts control through test tube cloning. Rather than use fear, Huxley’s book revolves around sexual pleasure. Huxley creates a world of recreational sex. Everyone works but they have a lot of time of leisure and play. They play games such as electromagnetic golf and centrifugal Bumble puppy.

Huxley knew that technology would be a main part of our society in the future, and he was correct. As a matter of fact, technology has come a long way, way further than what Huxley expected. People buy their kids a tablet or iPad at a young age. Back in Huxley’s day’s people didn’t have the technology we have today. Nowadays people use the internet as a daily routine. Such as social media, music, or information. People didn’t have that opportunity in the past. Technology is slowly ruining our children minds

Huxley wrote this book back in the 1930’s – 1940’s. Before he wrote his novel “Brave New World” it was the beginning of a worldwide depression. Which was the American stock market crash. During the stock market crash, he realized that ...

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... was growing up, he was also different. Huxley feels that if being unique, one has the freedom. Why try to be like others, everybody has their own different personality.

In our society, people would find it oddly strange to see a mother trying to have sexual intercourse with her own son. In the novel, Lenina starts off hooking up with Henry Ford, when she met Bernard she started hooking up with him. When Lenina went to the Savage Reservations she met up with her son that she haven’t seen in years. She thought it was love at first sight, but John the Savage, her son recognized his mother. He refused to do anything unnecessary or sexual with his mother.

Huxley message to us is an interesting statement. How is it that he could vision our future by his surroundings? When he wrote Brave New World, it was a few years before Adolph Hitler became dictor.