Discuss the relationship between science, religion, and political power in the World State.
The world state are controllers of the world, similar to the congress today. The world senate consists of 10 free thinkers, men and woman, who control important actions in the society. The world senate are the only politics in the modern world. No system of checks and balances are in order to keep them from going corrupt or mad with power. The world senate halted all progress of science and focuses only on the pharmaceutical happiness of the common wealth, by whatever means necessary. Christianity is completely abolished, the members of society don't even know what "God" is. Christianity has been replaced by Ford-ism, the worship of Henry Ford, the man who perfected the assembly line. "God in the safe and Ford in the shelves." (Huxley 232). The World Congress are well educated in the cultures of the past, the are influenced by the teachings of yesterday, for example, Mustapha Mond believes that there is a God, but since people change and god doesn't it has little prevalence to spit scripture at the uneducated citizens of the modern age. Brave New World is about the for-longing of true emotions for basic happiness, the world congress are the men and women who succeed in this goal.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
GMO survey results.
From what we have observed in the results of the survey, many students are uneducated about the definition of GMO as well as the "harm" of them. GMOs are not harmful. They do not kill you with cancer. 75% do ALL foods are modified.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Discussion #3: Brave New World
Evaluate what is more important in life, happiness or free will.
Free will holds more value in life than happiness, each decision you make should be yours to make no matter the outcome. Happiness is YOUR view on life, the view that you alone can only have; No government, no radical group, no religion has the right to strip that view from you.
A motif that presents itself throughout Brave New World is that all of the characters who have the ideology to be free are all miserable in their life. The characters who are sad are blesses in their society for being able to be sad, not some mindless, emotionless drone without a care in the world"'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't kinow what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody is happy nowadays.'...'But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, lenina? In your own way, for example, not in everybody else's way?'"(Huxley 91). Bernard cares for Lenina but she lacks the understand to comprehend what happiness is. Lenina's happiness is the same as the government tells her it is, a gramme of soma to dull the pain of the dystopic world they live in.
Free will holds more value in life than happiness, each decision you make should be yours to make no matter the outcome. Happiness is YOUR view on life, the view that you alone can only have; No government, no radical group, no religion has the right to strip that view from you.
A motif that presents itself throughout Brave New World is that all of the characters who have the ideology to be free are all miserable in their life. The characters who are sad are blesses in their society for being able to be sad, not some mindless, emotionless drone without a care in the world"'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't kinow what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody is happy nowadays.'...'But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, lenina? In your own way, for example, not in everybody else's way?'"(Huxley 91). Bernard cares for Lenina but she lacks the understand to comprehend what happiness is. Lenina's happiness is the same as the government tells her it is, a gramme of soma to dull the pain of the dystopic world they live in.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Brave New World Discussion.
Evaluate if the mass production of humans , as well as the purposeful segregation of classes, is beneficial to the modern society.
Mass producing humans specifically for their work is beneficial to humanity's growth while the Caste system of Alpha-Epsilon creates an opening for rebellion which would send humanity back to before the Ford-age.
There are five classes in the society, each with different jobs and uses in the society. At the top of the social pyramid are Alphas, the humans oversee the important functions of factories and hold government positions. Betas are the upper-middle class, second in order of social hierarchy, they work as nurses and mechanics and aid the lives of Alphas. Gammas are the lower-middle class; they works as Pilots, drivers or butlers to the Alphas. Deltas are the lower class; they work in factories and shipyards and are cloned in mass quantities using the Bokanovsky Process. Gammas are the slaves of society, they are mentally handicapped and serve the most mundane tasks such as lift-men (button presser in elevator), sewage workers, and porters. The production of humans happens in massive Hatcheries. In the hatcheries the lower class embryos are spun to lower oxygen levels and given alcohol to create mental retardation.
The production of humans is necessary for keeping the people happy and working. The humans created experience pure joy only when they are doing their job. "We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down. They learn to associate upside down with well-being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads."(Huxley 17).
Mass producing humans specifically for their work is beneficial to humanity's growth while the Caste system of Alpha-Epsilon creates an opening for rebellion which would send humanity back to before the Ford-age.
There are five classes in the society, each with different jobs and uses in the society. At the top of the social pyramid are Alphas, the humans oversee the important functions of factories and hold government positions. Betas are the upper-middle class, second in order of social hierarchy, they work as nurses and mechanics and aid the lives of Alphas. Gammas are the lower-middle class; they works as Pilots, drivers or butlers to the Alphas. Deltas are the lower class; they work in factories and shipyards and are cloned in mass quantities using the Bokanovsky Process. Gammas are the slaves of society, they are mentally handicapped and serve the most mundane tasks such as lift-men (button presser in elevator), sewage workers, and porters. The production of humans happens in massive Hatcheries. In the hatcheries the lower class embryos are spun to lower oxygen levels and given alcohol to create mental retardation.
The production of humans is necessary for keeping the people happy and working. The humans created experience pure joy only when they are doing their job. "We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down. They learn to associate upside down with well-being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads."(Huxley 17).
Friday, March 7, 2014
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