Brave New World - A Wake-Up Call for Humanity Essay -- Brave New World

Brave New World - A Wake-Up Call for Humanity(this essay has problems with the format)Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, human society has had to dispute to adapt to new technology. There is a shift from traditional society to a modern one. Within the last ten years we have seen atrocious advances in science and technology, and we are becoming more and more socially dependent on it. In the Brave New World, Huxley states that we are moving in the direction of Utopia much more rapidly than anyone had ever anticipated. Its goal is achieving happiness by giving up science, art, religion and other things we cherish in our world. It is an cruel society controlled by technology where human beings are produced on assembly line. His prophetic elements of human beings being conditioned, the concerns for the environment, importance of genetic engineering and re mathematical product, and our physical and rational development has now been one of the major factors tha t the governments, businesses and educational institutions are exploiting today. We are subconsciously moving to this bureaucracy of conformity, and Brave New World is a agitate up call from our obsessions of standardization socially, economically and politically. The story took place in A.F (After Ford) 632, this is 632years after Ford has released the first T-ford. Huxley used ?After Ford?to show its peachy advancement in making automobiles as a company over the years. In 1932, Huxley introduced Brave New World to show his great concern of the westward civilization. He saw that in the 1900s there was a dramatic economic change in different countries, where the wholesalers are being eliminated, and manufacturers selling directly to the consumers. For example, at that time Ford makes cars and even sells them. They control who and where they sell. Technology and transportation was increasing tremendously, which caused more and bigger factories, mass-productions (eg. automobiles), and more manufactured goods. There were more volumes of trade and production due to more machinery. As markets are growing, activities, structures, as well as attitudes towards companies are changing. Robert Heibroner suggests that ?the rise of such giant enterprises has changed the face of capitalism as they exploit to alter the market setting through a system of public and private planning (p.43).? Like the vi... ...re before (in terms of wealth, happiness, etc)? Are we too dependent on technology and science? Where is our individuality? Where is the tradeoff? How can we change to stop ourselves from moving toward the so-called ?Utopia?society? It seems that we too, are living in an incubator, pin down and conditioned, and we must do something to stop this from happening. Bibliography Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York HarperPerennial, 1946. http//www.primenet.com/matthew/huxley/sub/Barron_BNW.html http//www.demigod.org/zak/documents/high-school/brave-new-world/html htt p//www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/brave.htm Sexty,Robert. Overview of the Business System ,in Canadian Business and Society, Prentice-Hall, Scarborough, Ontario, 2005, pp5-22 Chandler, Alfred D.Jr. The Roe of Business in the United States A Historical Survey, in Business and Society, Barry Castro ed., Oxford University Press, pp.61-88 Steiner, G.A. and Steiner,J.F., Critics of Business, in Business,Government and Society A Managerial Perspective, 8th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2005.pp,69-90 Shaw, William H.., The Nature of Capitalism,in Business Ethics, tertiary ed., Wadworth, 2006, pp.124-152