I've been reading this book with more of a thinking cap mind so far and at this point I don't believe this is our brave new world. In my opinion a brave new world is a world not afraid of change a world willing to go onward to the unknown to a future we are not sure of. In this book we see the opposite of that we see people trying to suppress the idea of change and keep things the same this way we know for sure there is a safe future, cause when you control everything you know everything that is going to happen. So far this BNW society is not a BNW after that's why at some point in this blog I went from calling it BNW society to Ford society since there is nothing brave or new about it, seems to me they have been doing the same old stuff for 200 years or so.
I have always yearned for a more exciting life then the one I'm in right now. True to be safe is something I would want for future generations but with how they go about it in the Ford society is not how I would want to be safe. If I were to be in this world for a month it would make me yearned for my old world. I was to be special from the rest and not part of the plan by some higher up.
We can all look at death in our own way and see it as it is. I am not the sort to care about it seeing how it will happen no matter what, and the head nurse or whoever design the system for learning death is right to a point but not everyone can like the idea of dying. To die and know that people will just laugh at you or disrespect you when you are dead is a horrifying feeling. Hector is a example remember how he asked for his body to not be messed with when he is dead, well that is the same thing he wanted his body safe so it can there for his funnel or so.
John has seen the Ford society and does not like any of it seeing how it is different from his own world. Everyone taking drugs, people looking the same no one knowing Shakespeare's work. Relationships are something he can't agree with in the society with the idea people move fast and everyone is open.
John seems to be the example of our last world, world where science and reading is a open thing rather then being ban. His passion for Shakespeare has proven that stories like that will still be around. I find it funny seeing how they are a world without emotions and yet he is in this world and showing these emotions and telling them. Just goes to show you that this world is not perfect.
The world as we see it in BNW is that of one where there is a ruler keeping things as they are rather accepting change. It's then we have their god the most weirdest god there is Ford freaking Ford. Then we have John and Bernard or so who are the nonbelievers who don't believe in anything in this world.
Human emotions are very complex. Our brains are in my opinion the most complex thing we have come upon so far in the universe. Simply put millions of neurons firing across millions of synapses all at once creates the illusion of consciousness. Just something to think about for how Bernard was acting which is normal and the director who felt strong emotion though he was made to not feel those emotions.
I was one who has experience where he was made to do something someone said because they said so and let me tell you it's not fun. Your thoughts are of fear of what someone can do to you or what something can, all it takes is to break down the mind and put in action a scene in which you want the person to be scared of.
I've found the idea of genetic engineering interesting for me being one interested in the area of science. This world seems quite different from our own, this world seem to have a much more open mind on certain area of science.
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