Individualism In Brave New World

In this technological time, students more than ever are relying on the necessities of society in order to make their lives easier. But these “necessities” come at the cost of feelings, individualism, and the free-will of mankind, ultimately trading off free will for temporary gratification. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World expresses this transformation from the times of the past, relying on emotions to govern decisions, to the times of the future where technology has an iron grasp on the thoughts and ideas of society. In chapter eleven, John has an unsettling realization about the world. Everything is repeated, and true individualism is lost. Naming off bokanovski group after bokanovski group, seamlessly allighned and identical, “Eighty-three
People are specially selected for their size, or their color, or their tolerance to heat. But in the end, as these selections are made everyone slowly loses the final shreds of individualism differentiating them from another. Cloths are all repeated and sold off by the thousands, cars are mass produced, and now even children are being custom tailored to fit the desires of parents. When is it too far, how long will it be until we are a bokanovski group, each predetermined to do what we are most fit? Our world is truly a place where creativity is shredded, and individualism is conditioned away by schools, parents, and jobs. When is this perpetual conditioning going to end? Every day, a new device is created to simplify the complicated world we live in. People buy these devices to “stay up with the fashion trend” or to “express my individual tastes” along with millions of others individuals doing the same thing. People are blind to conformity and openly mimic others in an attempt to gain acceptance from other puppets. How long will it take for people to truly understand the cost of freedom. Our ancestors fought for people to be free, but instead we chose to hide away, masking ourselves by the very screen that cloaks our true