https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb By Aldous Huxley en-us 2018-12-20 16:20:07 UTC 2018-12-20 16:55:59 UTC hello@padlet.com 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316210134  Our world is becoming more similar to the Brave New World. As technology advances, we see new life being created artificially and current life being more reliant on artificial intelligence and entertainment. Brave New World is intensely interested in power and limits on technology to control the environment and maintain stability. 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316210134 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211480 We are being controlled and conditioned by pleasure. 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211480 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211569  There is a constant barrage of entertainment that is making us passive and self-centered. 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211569 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211572 “One’s got to play the game. After all, everyone belongs to everyone else,” (Huxley 43)]]> 2018-12-20 16:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211572 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211722 “‘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 inescapable social destiny,’” (Huxley ]]> 2018-12-20 16:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211722 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211798 “Again twelve stanzas. By this time the soma had begun to work. Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out on every happy, friendly smiles. Even Bernard himself felt a little melted,” (Huxley ]]> 2018-12-20 16:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211798 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211819 “As soon as they got back to the rest-house, shae swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity” (Huxley 140).

]]> 2018-12-20 16:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211819 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211904 “Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consumation, the peace, not the mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but balanced of life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium...For the Solidarity Service had given as well as taken, drawn off only to replenish,]]> 2018-12-20 16:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316211904 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212046 “‘I don’t think you ought to see things like that,’ he said . . . ‘Things like what, John?’ ‘Like this horrible film.’ ‘Horrible?’ Lenina was genuinely astonished. ‘But I thought it was lovely.’ ‘It was base, he said indignantly, ‘it was ignoble’” (Huxley 169-170). 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212046 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212299 “Throw them away when they’ve got holes in them and buy new. ‘The more stitches, less riches.’ Isn’t that right? Mending’s anti-social. But it’s all different here. It’s like living with lunatics,” (Huxley 121). 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212299 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212744 “Now at the twins who had stopped their hunting of the zipper and were staring from the other end of the ward, staring with all their eyes and nostrils at the shocking scene that being enact round Bed 20,” (Huxley 206). 

]]> 2018-12-20 16:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212744 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212773 The society at the World State has been conditioned and controlled to be a certain way by pleasure. Ever since they were young, they have been conditioned and made to fulfill a happiness that has been controlled by the World State through a drug called "soma." This drug induces a form of relaxation and pleasure when people feel a certain type of emotion that overwhelms them because they are not used to having feelings. They also do a ritual called the "Orgy- Porgy" which is also controlled by pleasure because the people need something to channel their emotions and momentarily prepare to lose their unique identities. The World State also wants them to have no feelings because they believe that it could dehumanize them, making them weaker and unstable. This could be seen in our society today because people are constantly taking drugs to avoid any emotions that arises so they can minimize any negative feelings for emotions. In the World State, they also are conditioned to sleeping around with others by having no boundaries since they believe that "everyone is for every body" because they think that being in a committed relationship threatens stability. The World State also controls there people through pleasure because once they are made, they are made to be destined for a certain thing and controlled to be happy and perfect at all times. These people do not understand the difference between humanity and being controlled because they have been conditioned to feel no forms of emotions and to tell from what's right and what's wrong. ]]> 2018-12-20 16:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316212773 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316213091 In today's world, there is a constant barrage of entertainment that is making us passive and self-centered. Things such as social media and online entertainment contribute to this notion. In the World State, technology has advanced them to have things such as "feelies," movies that make you feel like you are in the movie itself. The movies also teach the citizens to like and dislike certain things. These themes from the movies make the people believe certain things and stick to those beliefs, such as thinking nature is disgusting and disease ridden. Also, in John's case when his mother died, the children go to observe what is happening and think nothing of it. They are very passive in this moment and don't show any sympathy for John. Soma is also a large contributor to the entertainment of their society. People take it to have fun and prevent any type of negative feeling the have instead of going with the emotions. Much like in society today, people rely on rugs to entertain themselves and experience happiness. The way people look, specifically clothes, also determine what others think of you in today's society as well as in the World State. They believe that more holes mean that you are poor and can't get nice new clothes. All these aspects drawn from the quotes can be used to support today's main source of entertainment, social media and the Internet. ]]> 2018-12-20 16:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316213091 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220204 2018-12-20 16:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220204 19tquach https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220582 Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Penguin Books, 1975. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Penguin Books, 1975]]> 2018-12-20 16:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220582 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220583 2018-12-20 16:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220583 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220740 2018-12-20 16:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220740 19cpowers https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220945 2018-12-20 16:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/19tquach/eq0uy93d35wb/wish/316220945