Huxley’s Brave New World portrays a futuristic society in which everything is governmentally controlled, yet boasts a perfect social order and an efficient operating system. This new society stems from extreme control of the government, controlling the development of babies into certain caste systems, deciding how and when citizens have fun, and providing drugs to workers as a controlled escape from life. In reality, the government discreetly assumes control of everything and everyone creating not a utopia as described, but a complete dystopia in which thought, emotion, and nature are destroyed by efficiency, business, and work.
Today’s society, while still in a somewhat natural state is creeping ever closer to a government controlled dystopian society where technology and organization reign. The natural state of society is becoming overrun by beaurocratic nonsense forcing everyone to comply and live and act the same way. Once we are shaped into an unvarying society, government can easily control one operating body and manipulate us to work only for governmental gain. The true utopia is one in which mankind returns to a natural state of being under no governmental control and living simply in harmony with nature, allowing everyone to flourish as an individual.
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