https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j en-us 2023-01-09 18:27:04 UTC 2023-01-11 07:42:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f46c.png 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2438335005 2023-01-09 19:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2438335005 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2438537440 Thesis: After reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, our society seems to be on its way to becoming like the World State - especially when analyzing these two aspects of society: Technology and Identity. ]]> 2023-01-09 22:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2438537440 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440253722 2023-01-11 03:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440253722 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440255782 2023-01-11 03:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440255782 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440260901 ¨God isn´t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness¨ (Huxley 234).]]> 2023-01-11 03:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440260901 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440265004 ¨In a properly organized civilization like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic¨ (Huxley 237).]]> 2023-01-11 03:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440265004 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440273255 ¨Every one belongs to every one else¨ (Huxley 43).]]> 2023-01-11 03:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440273255 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440277719 “And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny¨(Huxley 16)]]> 2023-01-11 03:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440277719 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440278921 “It makes me feel as though...´he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, ´as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body¨(Huxley 90)]]> 2023-01-11 03:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440278921 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440279854 “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely¨ (Huxley 137).]]> 2023-01-11 03:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440279854 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440287035 ¨The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone¨(Huxley 65)]]> 2023-01-11 04:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440287035 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440289832 ¨;how the fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovski´s Process.¨(Huxley 6)]]> 2023-01-11 04:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440289832 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440291606 ¨Murder kills only the individual-and after all, what is an individual? We can make a new one with the greatest ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a individual; it strikes at society itself¨(Huxley 148).]]> 2023-01-11 04:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440291606 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440308157 ¨All conditioning aims at that: making people like their un-escapable destiny¨ (Huxley 16).]]> 2023-01-11 04:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440308157 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440310895 ¨Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds¨ (Huxley 77).]]> 2023-01-11 04:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440310895 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440323941 2023-01-11 04:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440323941 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440324256 2023-01-11 04:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440324256 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440324507 2023-01-11 04:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440324507 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440324792 2023-01-11 04:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440324792 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440359237 Technological advancements may lead to the enslavement or control of mankind when put to extreme use. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World the entire Society is based off of technological advancements. This includes the complete controlment of making human beings through Bokanovansky's process and hypnopaedic, a process of conditioning information into a person through sleep. with these new advancements the World State is able to practically choose a person's future. This includes their job, place in society, and their happiness. Though, of course, everybody is happy. This is only because each person has been conditioned to love their lives since their birth. It is the State's whole plan to keep civilization happy, even though every single one of them is being oppressed. Some more than others . Additionally, society is inevitably divided into groups with specialized functions. A caste system: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. It is true that in every world people are different in terms of their economic success. In order for society to function properly there will always be a group of people generally very small at the top with an immense amount of power and wealth. Then there is a group of people who are not as successful, but almost content with their life and their function in society. And at the bottom, there are the people who do all of the work the people in the first two groups would not do. They are not successful and surely not as happy. However, their functions in society are much needed and they cannot be replaced. they might not be as important as the individuals in the first group, but as a whole, they are essential to society. ]]> 2023-01-11 05:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440359237 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440393059  Individual happiness is defined as the ability to satisfy needs, and success and is defined by social stability and prosperity. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, it is the World State's priority to keep the happiness and prosperity of civilization. However, the only definition to their happiness is taking soma-holidays and having erotic play. Revolving around being artificially happy, though. In their dystopian society, needs are satisfied in all kinds of ways. For their sexual pleasure, it is very common and highly encouraged for every one to have a different person every night. Additionally, there are entertainment like watching a feelie with a scent organ, an occasional orgy-porgy, trips to reservations, etc. Technology and medications have allowed society to obtain their version of bliss whilst staying youthful for the rest of their lives. Their happiness is defined by their ability to have all the Technologies and medicines they please. As for their society's success, the State is only worried about keeping civilization happy with social stability and prosperity in all terms. Their social stability revolves around keeping the people conditioned and content with their lives. When everybody is happy with their lives, they complete their functions in society. The conditioning is what creates loss of self and identity for some like Bernard and Helmholtz. When John the savage realizes he wants freedom and as far from civilization as possible, it shows a want for individuality and personality. Today in modern times, technology and identity play a big part as aspects in our society. As technology advances, more impossible things become possible. Children are reproduced through DNA, surrogacy, and many more. Smart devices and machinery keep us entertained, even young kids from what is generally the youngest at 3, and medicine has enabled operations and treatments that can change one's life. Drugs being one that get utilized for a sense of happiness similarly to soma. Identity as well, is similar. Some are followers and stick with their cliques so much that they seem like copy-paste versions of themselves, and some are their own self leaders which make them individualistic and their own. Some even don't know or don't associate with identity. Overall, I believe any social sort of caste system has derailed within the last decade. We don't make certain sacrifices for social stability I think as much because people are voicing their opinions more - even younger generations. Pleasure is not conditioned or controlled, I find it to be very unique to their own and care-free. And finally entertainment is seemingly becoming self-centered and passive especially with social platforms and social media but generally is resourceful as a distraction. ]]> 2023-01-11 06:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440393059 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440415083 ¨I´d rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly¨ (Huxley 89)]]> 2023-01-11 07:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440415083 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440416826 ¨One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them¨(Huxley 234-235).]]> 2023-01-11 07:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440416826 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440422264 ¨And there´s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that´s what soma is¨(Huxley 238).]]> 2023-01-11 07:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440422264 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440423467 ¨But that´s the price we have to pay for stability. You´ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We´ve sacrificed the high art¨(Huxley 220).]]> 2023-01-11 07:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440423467 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440424901 ¨We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters¨(Huxley 232).]]> 2023-01-11 07:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440424901 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440441613 2023-01-11 07:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440441613 23mmercado https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440456009 2023-01-11 07:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/23mmercado/cc3kljmt6ya48l8j/wish/2440456009