I am terribly sorry if the title of this passage offends you, but this book offends me... or something.
Both Brave New World and Thomas More's Utopia attempt to explain different views of a futuristic society. One being a more "perfect" society where everything is owned by everyone, except for people, and they all are able to explore several different careers in a world of harmonic yet monotonous work. If perfect equals boring, then yes, this is a "perfect" society. Brave New World tries to show a distopic view of society where everything is run by science and controlled by... well, appropriately located world controllers. These guys help to create the world around them and set the futures of each individual/clone that comes out of their laboratory. The great thing is, you can get drugged up to go on crazy-ass vacations, diseases are non-existent, at least after decantation, everyone is happy, and the world's economy is stable. Problems with this society are the brainwashed, zombie citizens, where there is no way in Ford that you can move up in society, nor gain any greater knowledge to help you achieve those positions. History, literature, arts, and music have been terminated or replaced by the world controllers in order to keep the citizens under their control and not allow them to think outside of what they are already told.
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Tayler, I wanted to hear more about the ONE thing that disturbed you most in BNW, not your list!
You gotta remember that to these people, the more boring the world is, the better. The very title of World Controller makes me think that Mustapha Mond and the others are playing the best video game ever. Have you ever seen a zombie running around trying to get things done? I don't think so, which is another thing that freaks me out. If I were a brainwashed monkey, I would love to pray to Henry Ford and have Orgy ceremonies. *cough* Sarcasm *cough
I don't know if I agree with the society being boring. I mean they are always partying and they seem to be enjoying everything rather thoroughly. We have a different perspective of course but that is because we have been raised differently. To them this is all perfectly normal.
I agree with Zuercher. The way the persons are raised in BNW allows them to tolerate any boring aspect or seemingly unfair aspect. I am not sure that human resistance can be engineered out. I would think that there are always people hungry for power, even if they are conditioned not to be.
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