Factories not Families
Dystopian civilizations revoke our rights and prevent us from caring for others. Relationships, goals, and gratification, creates meaning in our lives. Satisfying goals, receiving fulfillment, and having a happy family make us care if we live, or not. Although the society in Brave New World doesn’t have to postpone pleasure, we have the ability to achieve true happiness through struggle.
Living isn’t living without meaning, we can’t live without caring. What is the worth in living easily and having nothing to look forward to? We almost never take into consideration that without pain, we would take happiness for granted. We wouldn’t realize the happiness that comes and goes, which would cause ignorance, allowing a constant contentness with doing nothing. Doing nothing is a past-time in Brave New World. They are able to obtain instant gratification, and never have to deal with pain “There is no need for a civilized man to bear anything slightly unpleasant.” --Mustafa Mond [page 237 of Brave New World.] John, who was raised on the reservation, fell in love with society born Lenina. But Lenina did not love John, she just desired him physically.
Families play a much bigger role in our lives than we consider. My family exposed me to all types of people and to all different things, in doing which, taught me to have my own ideas. In BNW, “The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone…” (Page 237) –Mustafa Mond, a Controller. In Brave New World, people are built and molded in factories, not by families. Babies are created in test tubes, and then conditioned to have certain beliefs and interests. When we are born, we have families and people who love us. We are loved, which teaches us to love others. We care, are empathetic, and like to think we are capable of walking a mile in the shoes of others.
We are conditioned based upon our surroundings; we create beliefs and ideas based on what we see and what we think. In chapter 2 of Brave New World, Delta babies are exposed to flowers and brightly colored books and then shocked, from a young age they begin to negatively associate books and flowers because they are “Gratuitous”. They don’t benefit the community therefore, are considered unnecessary. If we were subjected to such extensive conditioning we wouldn’t be unique, we wouldn’t have goals, and we wouldn’t have to deal with pain, which defines the main ideals in BNW.
When people become adults, most of them get jobs and have families. Struggling to find perfection, even when it seems unobtainable, and deep down, we know it doesn’t exist. But it’s never that simple. We hit bumps in the road. Encounter unexpected setbacks, and more than likely will be discouraged. But the negative things make us realize the extent to which we desire happiness. We strive for perfection, knowing it may not exist. Fufillment, families, and conditioning are what makes us who we are. We don’t have soma constantly blurring our thoughts, we are encouraged to be drug free and advance our ideas to help advance our society. We aren’t all created in factories with the same DNA and then raised to think exactly what our leaders want us to. Our parents raise us based on their ideals, no matter how different, eccentric or ‘free-thinking’ they may be. We are sheltered from danger and harm until our parents see fit, and once we become aware, we are taught to create our own opinions, no matter how much our parents’ rub off onto us.
Living isn’t living without meaning, we can’t live without caring. What is the worth in living easily and having nothing to look forward to? We almost never take into consideration that without pain, we would take happiness for granted. We wouldn’t realize the happiness that comes and goes, which would cause ignorance, allowing a constant contentness with doing nothing. Doing nothing is a past-time in Brave New World. They are able to obtain instant gratification, and never have to deal with pain “There is no need for a civilized man to bear anything slightly unpleasant.” --Mustafa Mond [page 237 of Brave New World.] John, who was raised on the reservation, fell in love with society born Lenina. But Lenina did not love John, she just desired him physically.
Families play a much bigger role in our lives than we consider. My family exposed me to all types of people and to all different things, in doing which, taught me to have my own ideas. In BNW, “The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone…” (Page 237) –Mustafa Mond, a Controller. In Brave New World, people are built and molded in factories, not by families. Babies are created in test tubes, and then conditioned to have certain beliefs and interests. When we are born, we have families and people who love us. We are loved, which teaches us to love others. We care, are empathetic, and like to think we are capable of walking a mile in the shoes of others.
We are conditioned based upon our surroundings; we create beliefs and ideas based on what we see and what we think. In chapter 2 of Brave New World, Delta babies are exposed to flowers and brightly colored books and then shocked, from a young age they begin to negatively associate books and flowers because they are “Gratuitous”. They don’t benefit the community therefore, are considered unnecessary. If we were subjected to such extensive conditioning we wouldn’t be unique, we wouldn’t have goals, and we wouldn’t have to deal with pain, which defines the main ideals in BNW.
When people become adults, most of them get jobs and have families. Struggling to find perfection, even when it seems unobtainable, and deep down, we know it doesn’t exist. But it’s never that simple. We hit bumps in the road. Encounter unexpected setbacks, and more than likely will be discouraged. But the negative things make us realize the extent to which we desire happiness. We strive for perfection, knowing it may not exist. Fufillment, families, and conditioning are what makes us who we are. We don’t have soma constantly blurring our thoughts, we are encouraged to be drug free and advance our ideas to help advance our society. We aren’t all created in factories with the same DNA and then raised to think exactly what our leaders want us to. Our parents raise us based on their ideals, no matter how different, eccentric or ‘free-thinking’ they may be. We are sheltered from danger and harm until our parents see fit, and once we become aware, we are taught to create our own opinions, no matter how much our parents’ rub off onto us.