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SPHS Lantano
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I think that BNW is more believable than 1984. While 1984 can be summed up by imagining a face being stomped on by a boot, Brave New World is practically the total opposite. In the world Bernard lives in, people are willing to be controlled and let others control them. BNW is more believable because the cause of our demise will be ourselves, not an outside force that will take over through violence and spying etc. There is ultimate control in BNW because people are conditioned to like what they do, from a very young age, and so they never complain. Since people are always happy, they will never want change. They are tricked and made into liking what other people want, not what they truly want. The citizens don't know what is right because of their conditioning, and if that fails, there is always the make-you-happy drug, soma. Also, love is lost because the leaders in BNW promote pormiscuity. Too much of a good thing is bad. Sex and the love/passion that comes with it becomes useless and meaningless. As a controller said, "think of water under pressure in a pipe...pierced it once...what a jet...pierced it twenty times...twenty piddling little fountains". All this makes for "community, identity, satbility".