Brave new world av Aldous Huxley

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People in all times have always been reflecting over how the world will be in the future. A common vision is about a sterile and metallic society, where every person is a product of a high technological science fictional cyberspace. If you are in the middle of a new revolution, in a time where everything is getting new shapes and old structures are washed out, a so-called paradigmatic shift, you can feel all the possibilities that the future provides. Sometimes, when the science has developed a new theory or an invention, that seems so conclusive and vertiginous, the people can for real taste the sweetness of the future contingencies. And, when you have that in your hands, so near, you can not avoid being tempted of the world wide revolutionary prodigious new dimensions that comes towards us, closer and closer every hour. It is nearly impossible to not be dragged in the new waves that every person follows.

Only for a couple of years ago, many citizens were refusing being addicted to mobile phones and the Internet. Today almost no one can survive without the computer services in the normal informative everyday life. It is more like a norm, something that we nearly do not question. My speculation is, are we slaves under this technologic revolution, or are we the ones who moves it forward?
Brave new world

One of the most known literary works that treats this matter, is a book called “Brave new world”. The author is Aldous Huxley, and he wrote this stunning work already in the 1932. That is really impressive, and astonishing, since it is 72 years old and is so clear sighted over the hysteria for achieving a sterile society, with inhabitants rose into a life that is created and predicted by the power of a sovereign state. He wrote this book, as a protest to the development, which he found very repulsive and divorced from the humanity.

The novel is set in A.F. 632, approximately seven centuries after the twentieth century. The world is ruled by World Controllers who ensure the stability of society. To establish social stability, a five-tiered caste system ruled by Alphas and Betas has been created.

The labour force comes from the lower three castes, known as Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. A drug called soma makes sure that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and it is rationed out to and used by members of every caste.

It is socially unacceptable to be sad, everything that can cause depression, anger, and instability in the society are deleted, and everybody is just satisfied and happy with their situation and life. Hypnopaedia is used to teach the children ethics. While the babies and children are asleep, ethical phrases are played numerous times so that the phrases will become a subconscious part of the each person.

This means that the single person does not know how to think anything else then they have been brainwashed to think and value the world around them. Everything is meant to be an exact part of the fabric, and everything is just so well figured of the controllers. Nothing is forgotten, nothing can go wrong in this ultimate reality.

The head characters are Lenina and Bernard, two youths in London, England. They work in the same factory, the cradle of humanity. In the world of Ford, the word “parent” is non-existing. No mother gives birth to a child. There are no families, siblings, relatives or other relations. Every foetus is made in a laboratory, and from one sperm you can extract about 287 eggs, with the exact same DNA in the different casts. The cloned human being is fundamental in this new world. No one is weird and no one is strange. Everybody is made in the same template, so no one will feel alone or abortive. Thanks to the nerve vitamin extract the people remain young, vigour and beautiful until you reach the age of 60, then you die, in a crematorium. The world is happy, stabile and wonderful.
Epilogue

This is the huge machine look like a complete work, but, as we can understand, an enormous system can never survive, if it does not satisfy the essential needs of the humans. We can not manipulate our race to what ever we might come up to, we are only humans, and so will we remain. This book drives the high technological idea to its head, and it is very far from today, so to us it is a bit strange to not have a mother, siblings or cousins and so on. I think that it is a possibility that this may come; we have the resources and power to do what we want with this world and the creatures in it. I do not doubt that.

Though, one thing is clear, ...