Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: Utilitarian Society
Malek Baker
Jordan
Research Paper
Brave New World In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, his utilitarian society seeks the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of the people (Brandt, “Utilitarianism and Moral Rights”). The ways they achieve this are through genetic engineering, selective breeding, artificial selection, also having the masses us hallucinogenic and antidepressant drugs. The happiness of the society does not come from what most would think like achievements, advancements, and love. Instead, happiness is found through stability and the emotional equilibrium in the population of the world state. Their greatest happiness is through scientific and social conditioning, this then makes the person content with who …show more content…
Since the society is fixated on always being happy they use certain methods which are seen as taboos and even norms in some societies of our current world. The use of Soma, which is a hallucinogenic antidepressant drug, keeps the people taking the drug “happy”. People take this drug to go on “holiday”, which ends up being a hallucinogenic trip to escape the current realities and moods that seem to be bothering or irritating the person. Although this society kept as a utilitarian society, the citizens are still human, even though genetic engineering is used, Unhappiness and irritation sets in, then the person refuses to experience unhappiness, the drug then keeps the people from wonder and appreciation of beauty, which could only be achieved from knowing the exact opposite of what the drug puts on the person. Humanity in this book must first know to be unhappy which would then create and appreciate …show more content…
They lack the desires of our modern human society because they have been scientifically and socially conditioned (Berg, “Genetic Engineering: Challenge and Responsibility”). They are genetically engineered and hpynopaedically conditioned to accept their one way of life. The citizens of Huxley’s book are still free although their lives have been completely controlled; they are free from want, ambition, and uncertainty. The problems of today’s society are sidestepped in the world state. The fixed social order is to keep stability and harmony for all (Brandt, “Utilitarianism and Moral Rights”). This is achieved by maintaining the social control the power stands in control of genetics, mind control and pleasure
Jordan
Research Paper
Brave New World In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, his utilitarian society seeks the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of the people (Brandt, “Utilitarianism and Moral Rights”). The ways they achieve this are through genetic engineering, selective breeding, artificial selection, also having the masses us hallucinogenic and antidepressant drugs. The happiness of the society does not come from what most would think like achievements, advancements, and love. Instead, happiness is found through stability and the emotional equilibrium in the population of the world state. Their greatest happiness is through scientific and social conditioning, this then makes the person content with who …show more content…
Since the society is fixated on always being happy they use certain methods which are seen as taboos and even norms in some societies of our current world. The use of Soma, which is a hallucinogenic antidepressant drug, keeps the people taking the drug “happy”. People take this drug to go on “holiday”, which ends up being a hallucinogenic trip to escape the current realities and moods that seem to be bothering or irritating the person. Although this society kept as a utilitarian society, the citizens are still human, even though genetic engineering is used, Unhappiness and irritation sets in, then the person refuses to experience unhappiness, the drug then keeps the people from wonder and appreciation of beauty, which could only be achieved from knowing the exact opposite of what the drug puts on the person. Humanity in this book must first know to be unhappy which would then create and appreciate …show more content…
They lack the desires of our modern human society because they have been scientifically and socially conditioned (Berg, “Genetic Engineering: Challenge and Responsibility”). They are genetically engineered and hpynopaedically conditioned to accept their one way of life. The citizens of Huxley’s book are still free although their lives have been completely controlled; they are free from want, ambition, and uncertainty. The problems of today’s society are sidestepped in the world state. The fixed social order is to keep stability and harmony for all (Brandt, “Utilitarianism and Moral Rights”). This is achieved by maintaining the social control the power stands in control of genetics, mind control and pleasure