Has anyone read the book "Brave new world" before? I saw the 1980 BBC film on google video and will be reading the book when I have the time... it's impressive to think the book was writen in 1931.
What I found interesting is that in this "brave new world," sociaty is broken down into a cast system, Alphas, Betas, Gamas, Deltas, Epsalons (spelling). Everyone in this sociaty has been druged and conditioned from birth to believe in perverted ideals such as "nature nauzia" (where they reject the natural world such as plants, natural food etc), the rejection of family (they claim the family is no longer needed), no parents (the unborn are manufactured in a plant not born naturally, cloned and genetically modified etc), sexual promescuity the norm and encuraged ("holy orgy services" replace "holy church services" etc), rejection of anything spiritual, and constant mind altering drug use (soma was the name of this drug.)
If you read the book or watch the BBC film (use google video), you will see shorty that it seems like a "perfect sociaty," no one gets old physically, starves, no crime etc... but the tragic cost is that there is no true freedom of the mind, body or spirit, though they claim that "you can have anyone or anything you wish." Slavery exits, but mental conditioning and daily drug rations replace physical chains, there is no need for armed guards because these slaves are "CONTENT AND HAPPY" in their slavery. I was thinking about how similar certain concepts in the book seem to be with our current sociaty. We have a sociaty that has broken off from the real world, and now exist in the fake world of reality TV, Playstation 3, mind numbing facebook channels where they brag about moronic celebs and play farmvill (you probably don't even know how to grow anything in real life)... I don't have a problem with entertainment, but it seems that they are taking more and more attention from the REAL WORLD. We have a generation of people who can't even hammer a nail or walk a dog but they got a virtual pet... we got people who know more about texting on their "smart phone" than where their state is located on a map, or who their governer is. IMHO, this is a sociaty that's "self medicating" itself... like a drug addict, real life is hard, fake life is easy and getting easier... and when we have a massive welfare state, what reason do these people have to get their minds 'wired" back into a real world mindset? This is the main reason why I have little to NO FAITH in the future of this country... the people have sold their souls for "confortable" living via the nanny state government who strong arm the hardworking. What happens when backs of the real producers is broken and they can no longer be squeezed dry, when the nanny state machine breaks down, when the weak minded are violently shocked back into reality?
Tell me how we can TRUELY reclaim our nation to be free again if we have such largely ignorant masses?
What I found interesting is that in this "brave new world," sociaty is broken down into a cast system, Alphas, Betas, Gamas, Deltas, Epsalons (spelling). Everyone in this sociaty has been druged and conditioned from birth to believe in perverted ideals such as "nature nauzia" (where they reject the natural world such as plants, natural food etc), the rejection of family (they claim the family is no longer needed), no parents (the unborn are manufactured in a plant not born naturally, cloned and genetically modified etc), sexual promescuity the norm and encuraged ("holy orgy services" replace "holy church services" etc), rejection of anything spiritual, and constant mind altering drug use (soma was the name of this drug.)
If you read the book or watch the BBC film (use google video), you will see shorty that it seems like a "perfect sociaty," no one gets old physically, starves, no crime etc... but the tragic cost is that there is no true freedom of the mind, body or spirit, though they claim that "you can have anyone or anything you wish." Slavery exits, but mental conditioning and daily drug rations replace physical chains, there is no need for armed guards because these slaves are "CONTENT AND HAPPY" in their slavery. I was thinking about how similar certain concepts in the book seem to be with our current sociaty. We have a sociaty that has broken off from the real world, and now exist in the fake world of reality TV, Playstation 3, mind numbing facebook channels where they brag about moronic celebs and play farmvill (you probably don't even know how to grow anything in real life)... I don't have a problem with entertainment, but it seems that they are taking more and more attention from the REAL WORLD. We have a generation of people who can't even hammer a nail or walk a dog but they got a virtual pet... we got people who know more about texting on their "smart phone" than where their state is located on a map, or who their governer is. IMHO, this is a sociaty that's "self medicating" itself... like a drug addict, real life is hard, fake life is easy and getting easier... and when we have a massive welfare state, what reason do these people have to get their minds 'wired" back into a real world mindset? This is the main reason why I have little to NO FAITH in the future of this country... the people have sold their souls for "confortable" living via the nanny state government who strong arm the hardworking. What happens when backs of the real producers is broken and they can no longer be squeezed dry, when the nanny state machine breaks down, when the weak minded are violently shocked back into reality?
Tell me how we can TRUELY reclaim our nation to be free again if we have such largely ignorant masses?
