Could Brave New World Become Our Future

Could that world become our future? Sometimes in life, things cross your mind that really makes you wonder. This science-fiction novel, Brave New World, is definitely a book to make you ponder. The author, Aldous Huxley, presented an idea of nearly 600 years into the future in which the society lived peculiarly. He displayed a concept throughout the novel where the characters would develop a drug rage, known as Soma, every time they had a feeling of melancholy. Also, in this world, there was no such thing as a family. Babies were created in test tubes; it was against the government to have children. This life the people were living was known as the “World State.” It was run by a strict government who strongly told the community what to do
The book communicated this subject by describing how families were not fond of in the “World State” and how the human population abrupted to turn out. This idea was quite similar to today’s society and how people really endure overpopulation. Huxley states “From eighty to ninety six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.” (Huxley 17). Here it is clarified how children were created; this was to maintain the population. The government discovered that producing babies this way would solve many different problems. For example, resources would have to be maintained at a certain level to sustain its citizens. This also occurred in the modern era. In today’s society, China’s population was put into consideration by their government. They decided that each couple were to have only one child each. This was established as the one-child policy. Both situations were initiated to maintain their population. Also, it is stated that some families did not obey this regulation and had more than one child. They again relate because John’s mother broke the family rule and conceived a child. However, the way the novel perpetuated the issue differs from China’s one-child policy. The way the novel demonstrated maintaining the population was
For example, politicians use billboards and slogans to appeal to its voters. This act was examined quite deeply in the text, Brave New World, in many conditions. In the text, characters were encouraged to buy and consume things using slogans; stating that fixing something isn’t smart to do and that it will be in their best interest to just buy something new. Huxley writes “..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon.." (Huxley 62). Soma is a drug in the story the characters would consume if they were feeling a bit depressed or glum. It was greatly influenced to take soma throughout the book. Often in the book, they would say the slogan “Just take soma.” This was an example of advertising which is highly used in the modern era. In the current century, we as a society are inspired to buy products as well, using commercials, slogans, etc. For example, the slogan “Just do it” from Nike connects very well to the statement made about soma. They both demonstrate doing a specific action for the better. Not only they are alike but different in ways too. In Brave New World, the advertising was towards taking drugs and today, most companies