Aldous Huxley view on technology
Humanities 104-501
July 23, 2013
Aldous Huxley view on technology
On this essay we’ll discuss the views of Aldous Huxley towards technology, and society in whole. The impact he had on the people that read his books and our commentary based on his observations for the future. Huxley was a British writer best known for his novel Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932. He was concerned of the changes of western civilization at that time, which would prompt him to write great novels about the serious threats posed by the combination of power and technical progress. He was also very interested in parapsychology in addition, he would write against war and nationalism. In his book Brave New World he would write about the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy. He imagined a society so close of what we have today that in order to have the foresight to write about before it happened made him a perfect candidate of those hermetic societies. This imagined society would used genetics and cloning in order to condition and control individuals. In this future society all children are conceived in test tubes. They are genetically conditioned to belong to one of the five categories of populations, from the most intelligent to the dumbest. The individuals living in this society are slaves without knowing it and would never dream of escaping. This system of slavery would feed the individuals through entertainment and consumption the slaves would love their servitude; giving them no reason or even suspect of being captive. Many feel that it resembles exactly the type of society that we have today. His opinion that a democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
July 23, 2013
Aldous Huxley view on technology
On this essay we’ll discuss the views of Aldous Huxley towards technology, and society in whole. The impact he had on the people that read his books and our commentary based on his observations for the future. Huxley was a British writer best known for his novel Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932. He was concerned of the changes of western civilization at that time, which would prompt him to write great novels about the serious threats posed by the combination of power and technical progress. He was also very interested in parapsychology in addition, he would write against war and nationalism. In his book Brave New World he would write about the perfect dictatorship would look like. It would have the appearance of a democracy. He imagined a society so close of what we have today that in order to have the foresight to write about before it happened made him a perfect candidate of those hermetic societies. This imagined society would used genetics and cloning in order to condition and control individuals. In this future society all children are conceived in test tubes. They are genetically conditioned to belong to one of the five categories of populations, from the most intelligent to the dumbest. The individuals living in this society are slaves without knowing it and would never dream of escaping. This system of slavery would feed the individuals through entertainment and consumption the slaves would love their servitude; giving them no reason or even suspect of being captive. Many feel that it resembles exactly the type of society that we have today. His opinion that a democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.