SPHS-Gala
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
In the book Brave New World, the author Huxley, who was blind for most of his adolescence, seems to really compare the world that he has made up in the book, to the world that we live in.<br>In the world, everyone is programmed with a certain amount of knowledge and a life that is of the creator's choosing. It is remarkably similar to that of our world. Who knows that we might actually be being programmed as well. To see this point, it can be seen through consumerism. That there are advertisements constantly bombarded upon us, and many of us submit ourselves to them and obey their command. The advertisements work like the way hypnopaedia works on the clones. They send subliminal messages to us, commanding us to do what they want us to do. The use of hypnopaedia really determines the outcome of our actions, whether we think we're better than that, or that we're not being controlled. Ever think that the companies want you to say that?<br>And then there is the use of drugs. They seem to closely represent the drugs that we use today. Lke the drug Soma n BNW, it is closely linked to that of the common antidepressant (eg. Prozac). Everyone in BNW uses Soma like as though it is candy. Most people these days use antidepressants like that as well. As well for example, the "Syrup of Corpus Luteum" that is read by Lenina, and used by Fanny seems to resemble of what is being used as a pleasure substance for today. Like the drugs Weed, and Cocaine, or Speed. They all have the common tendency for bringing a form of pleasureable stability that we lack. Just like the sex hormone chewing gum. We all need a form of pleasuable sbstitute when it can't be reached.