Friday, February 27, 2009

World State good or bad

I think that the world state would be good but for the most part bad. I think that the state would be good because every one would be happy and wouldn't really know about death and other things that cause pain. The purpose of the world state is to limit pain and make everyone perfect. Although they are controlled and cant live their life they don’t know it so there is no pain. They live their lives thinking their society is perfect and are ignorant. The reason I believe this that this society is bad because they are not allowing people to live their lives without freedom. The people in this society don’t have the free will to think, make decisions for them selves. They are made without a history and a family. Without the two you can't really figure out where you came from or what has happened in the past. Like Lenina people in the society take soma when they don’t' feel good or want to get stuff out of their minds. They have no sense of problem solving for their selves. It is also bad because most of them can't experience the feeling of love being with a partner of the opposite sex or being loved by family. They like for everyone to be one and not have any personal relationship with anyone else. In conclusion, I think that this state is good because they don’t feel pain and don’t know how fake their society really is. The World State is bad because the society has no history, no personal relationships, and no free will.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Predictions of Huxley

The predictions that have come true from Huxley’s prediction: Test tube babies. He talked about in his society babies come from test tubes and then are injected into the mom sexual organ. In their society babies are born this way because they don't want them to have actual mothers or families. Test tube also prevents people from getting diseases into having sex and all the women getting pregnant. What has not happen in his prediction are every one being in one society and worshiping the same God, which is Ford. Also, they haven't really stopped the process of aging. We have surgeries and pills but nothing to stop aging completely. Lastly, they also we have not stopped the form of disease in people which is basically impossible to do. Their society is perfect from allot of things but not as perfect as they think. Their is at least one flaw in everyone’s society a big flaw in their is history (like Monds) and individuality.