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Andrew Palmer

Mrs. Moore

Expository Reading/Writing

6 April 2017

We Became A trivial Culture

Brave New World, Written by Arduously Huxley in 1963, expresses Huxley's visions for

the future of humanity. Huxley illustrates his views of humanity eventually give up all emotions

and relationships to become happy by being entertained through media and other activities

within his story. Huxley's visions upon the world grow more accurate through humans utilizing

more technology, leading them to becoming a trivial culture preoccupied with their technology.

Huxley fears those whom offer overwhelming amounts of information along with trivial

ideas to make important information, seem irrelevant too keep the public naive avoiding

revolutions. Huxley compares Mufasa Monds, the world controller, ambitions to control the

public, to our government. This is proven within the hatchery and conditioning center when the

children Reach out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumping

the illuminated pages of a book(20) and Monds signals a nurse to proceed to rub in the lesson

with a mild shock Offer them the flowers and the books again. The nurses obeyed ... the

infants shrank away in horror (21). The fact Monds actions seem so extreme to readers, proves

Huxley uses Monds to convey his visions of what the government would do with power. Today,

the internet has become considerably more utilized in the world, causing many people too find

books irrelevant similar to huxley's visions where people read less and engage in pleasuring

activities. This is proven when a majority of internet users engage in entertainment websites
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instead of educational causing them to grow more ignorant of surroundings comparably to

Huxley's story.

Orwell fears subjection through a constant barrage of entertainment that makes us

passive, ignoring important information causing ignorance. Society today is being entertained

just as orwell feared, the majority of population is controlled through pleasure, tv, and games.

The majority of people become content within their life, making them self-centered and

unalterable. Similar to when people in the World State become depressed, they say, "What you

need is a gramme of soma."(37). This demonstrates the World State using soma to control people

passively with their pleasures similar to how people in our world turn to tv or games when

depressed. Societys being controlled effectively without police, but if not controlled with

pleasure, they will be controlled with police.The World State and our World show great

similarities, including being controlled through pleasure while the police become a last resort to

contain the population. The future of our world is becoming comparable towards the World state

through the fact that majority of people use the internet daily for long periods of time. This

entertainment drowns important information within the entertainment causing them to become

more uninformed confirming Huxleys visions.

Brave New World uses satire within the the controlling of people's intelligence with

entertainment, media, and pleasures. Huxley allows readers to realize the utopia they call in the

book is actually a dystopia for readers form connections within our own world and the World

State through these containment methods. Huxley's visions about humanity being lead into this

type of containment within Brave New World grows more accurate through the advancements

within our technological fields. We are becoming similar towards the World State, because more
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people indulg in entertainment, pleasure and drugs becoming less aware similar to the World

State.