Behavioral Conditioning In Brave New World

Behavior conditioning in our world and society today has been blindly shaping our world. Starting from the days in kindergarten throughout our lives whether it be in America or Japan, conditioning is world wide phenomenon. Proponents of Behavioral Conditioning in our modern society is the idea to create the “perfect citizen”, claiming that it should be used for the good and protection of people, like the book Brave New World they live in a world of complete control not having the benefit of a system. Behavior conditioning like any controversial topic has its pros and cons in the matter. While behavior conditioning is often label as “brainwashing” or forcing beliefs onto people, like North Korea for example, it shows some positive values.
I his novel the people of the world state is designed and “programed” to fit within society’s standards. To fit into the country not stand out or have different beliefs or thoughts. This way of behavior control is the first idea that comes to mind. An idea that both the new world and the real world both share is the idea of the “perfect citizen” where how they both carry out this idea verries. In the modern world today “culture's system of social control” creates a social norm and a standard which, “Commonly held conceptions of appropriate and expected behavior in a society” (O’Neil). Dennis O’Neil’s study on global cultures explains that the society and the environment around the area will influence the social norm. Creating standards and actions that their home country wants to shape. In Huxley’s novel environment also plays a role to the shaping of behavior, but unlike the modern age the world state as a more efficient way of shaping its people. Unlike being born from a mother the new state, the people are raised from test tubes called the “Bokanovsky’s process” (Huxley). Allowing the world to create anyone they want by creating “ Ninety-six identical twins” to erase any free thought and creativeness from their society shaping “Community,Identity, Stability” (Huxley). With the same idea in mind both worlds have their own ways of pursuing it, but with the
In america behavioral testing on humans was banned due to the in human ways of the tests. People couldn't deal with hurting another person so the tests stopped, where as in huxley’s novel people by creation do not show morals of right and wrong. During the beginning stages of life, the director in the new state puts them into shock therapy “ Children started screaming ; their faces were distorted with terror” (Huxley pg 21). In the modern world this kind of practice would be looked down upon and would be shutdown for human rights. Whereas in the world state teaching babies by shock therapy is a normal. To control the want to explore or thinks this technique helps them have control over their people.

Ideas to Behavior Conditioning in our modern society is the idea to create the “perfect citizen”, and should be used for the good and protection of people not the benefit of a system. While there will always be those two sides to the issue it's a topic worth bringing up behavior conditioning is a battle and issue every day. Unlike the book real world behavior control isn't on that intense scale as the world state but it shares the same idea to mold and shape the perfect citizen of their