""Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitly the whole problem would be solved."
Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." pg. 7
This book can originally be described with one word: weird. Everything about the world it creates is the opposite of what we are taught when we are young, that it is good to be an individual. The ever-insightful Dr. Suess captures the idea of individuality perfectly; "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."In Brave New World, however, individuality is not only frowned upon, but feared. The above quote makes me question: is individuality a problem that needs to "be solved"? The idea of mass production applied to biology is frightening, and with science progressing the way it is, it doesn't seem too unrealistic or far off. I believe that Huxley wrote this book with great foresight, so that scientists and lawmakers would consider every consequence that modern science can present to society. While a world where everyone is happy may not seem so terrible, a world without individuality seems more than disturbing.
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