Over-Organization Class Assignment by AJ Doyle https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw Post - under your real name - so you can get credit. Consider a significant idea that Huxley relates in "Over-organization". Post the quote that best reflects that significant idea. Then explain how you see that idea reflected in some aspect of society today. Be very specific, what company, what event, what issue specifically are you considering related to Huxley's idea. en-us 2021-09-20 15:24:01 UTC 2021-11-29 00:59:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/267e.png Wei Ting Ruan weitingruan09 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754511857 "As the little men disappear, more and more economic power comes to be wielded by fewer and fewer people"- Aldous Huxley

I chose this quote because I thought that this is an incredibly common sight in today's society. This quote gives me a lot of space for additional research and exploring into different companies, and even across industries. 

Specifically, large conglomerates such as Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos profited especially during the COVID pandemic- "Bezo's wealth grew by $90.1 Billion during the pandemic." (USA Today) 

I'm thinking of creating my thesis based on wealth disparity in relation to the pandemic to show how exactly the 'little men' get drowned especially during hard times, with historic levels of unemployment, while the rich continue to profit beyond comprehension.

]]> 2021-09-20 15:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754511857 Trinidy Torres trinidy121715 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754514220 "we see, then that modern technology has lead to the concentration of economic and political power, and to the development of a society controlled by ..... big business and big government" ( Pg 11 )
In todays world we our over run by technological development  and by the companies that thrive of the media. We often lack the awareness of the reality that big businesses and media although can be beneficial in today's society are often harmful or lack the concern for its consumers.]]> 2021-09-20 15:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754514220 santiagoanaisa97 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754520975 Anaisa Santiago

 “In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual. We reproduce our kind by bringing the father's genes into contact with the mother's. These hereditary factors may be combined in an al­most infinite number of ways. Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.”
I feel like this quote can be further explained by arguing with someone who is for technology. Many people do not see a real problem with the heavy use of technology, so by trying to explain evolution and how we are all supposed to be different. Us following everyone is going against biological nature. 

]]> 2021-09-20 15:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754520975 Kyle Dell'Aquila kdellaquila2 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754521503  "The wish to impose order upon confusion, to bring harmony out of dissonance, and unity out of multiplicity is a kind of intellectual instinct, a primary and fundamental urge of the mind." 
"Though it sometimes happens that a bad philosophical may do harm indirectly, by being used as a justification for senseless and inhuman actions."
"The Will to Order can make tyrants out of those who merely aspire to clear up a mess.  The beauty of tidiness is used as a justification for despotism."

  The area of interest here in relation to Huxley is the idea of conformity that turns into something similar to despotism and my aim is to see how this relates to the government health sector specifically when it comes to following/enforcing government orders etc. the push for vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic ]]> 2021-09-20 15:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754521503 Over-Organization- Deleisha Moore https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754523437 " Our contemporary western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress is increasingly less conducive to mental health and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and capacity for love in the individual; It tends to turn him into an automation who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness. "
 This definitely shown in today's society as shown by this article https://mhanational.org/issues/state-mental-health-america that there is the increase of mental sickness as there is an emphasis put on working and producing instead of worrying about the individual health every year there is an 1.5 million increase plus more over the quarantine of people being mentally ill. I.T is literally looked down upon to take off work and people usually work themselves sick.

]]> 2021-09-20 15:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754523437 Over-Organization Quote. - Ashanti Babb ashantibabb41 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754529590 "Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed." I chose this quote because it specifies that if it is a continuous eager to work, become above all neglecting to stabilize your mental health will be your downfall. We are not created to push without doubling back and slowing down, being always put together declines your freewill inside your mind. ]]> 2021-09-20 15:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754529590 Hamza Rashid https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754535411  “The political merchandisers appeal only to the weaknesses of voters, never to their potential strength. They make no attempt to educate the masses into becoming fit for self-government; they are content merely to manipulate and exploit them. For this purpose, all the resources of psychology and the social sciences are mobilized and set”


this quote is what defines today's corporate media, how they treat their opposition, how they lie and manipulate information for sake of control. and how they monetize any strictly for their own benefit to anyone who the media deems a threat or an average citizen. The United States has one thing most countries around the world don't have and sometimes makes the United States Superior. And it's the Constitution, in the Constitution, there is the First Amendment which gives freedom of speech protection from the government and any who protect to anyone Proclaimers to be a journalist part of news media/paper, but that is the issue mainstream media they are not Just journalist their corporate entity that uses these protections as the shield. 
this is how our media is dangerous and why over organizations is dangerous ]]> 2021-09-20 15:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754535411 Yara Barbosa- We all are unique https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754536683  “Physically and mentally l, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interest of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man’s biological nature. “(Page12)  

I chose this quote because Every single mankind is unique, there’s no human being the same and Nowadays this is happening a lot, specially when comes to religious, gorvenment, they think everyone should follow one thing when there’s a lot to discuss about it which brings people do things which is different than others and thats is the big problem when someone do different or think different]]> 2021-09-20 15:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754536683 Trinidy Torres trinidy121715 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754537254

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/news/2017/03/29/429442/corporate-capture-threatens-democratic-government/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/28/why-big-business-and-big-government-haunt-america



]]> 2021-09-20 15:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754537254 Dilafruz. https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754540084   I think the point Huxley is making is that in today's world, we have all different kinds of technology to help us every day of our lives. Nowadays we use our computers to do our school work. One of the quotes that I found from page 9 is ''Today, thanks to sanitation, modern pharmacology, and the social consciences, most of the children born with considerable....'']]> 2021-09-20 15:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754540084 Increasing mental sickness romanpatent https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754549273 Our "increasing mental sickness" may find expression in neurotic symptoms. These symptoms are conspicuous and extremely distressing. But "let us beware," says Dr. Fromm,"of defining mental hygiene as the prevention of symptoms.Symptoms as such are not our enemy, but our friend; where there are symptoms there is conflict, and conflict always indicates that the forces of life which strive for integration and happiness are still fighting." The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.

In this paper I would like to discuss the declining mental state of the working people living in the over-organized and overcrowded urban settings of today's modern world. In the quote above, I feel this is a very important point that Huxley makes and that needs further exploration. Especially seeing as mental health-care in the United States is severely lacking accessibility for ordinary people, it is often seen as an affliction for the rich. 
]]> 2021-09-20 16:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754549273 Tobias Smith https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754550612 "The dehumanizing effects of over organization are reinforced by the dehumanizing effects of over population."(page 13, second to last paragraph)

I chose this quote because of the way how people see their worth less than a average human being. I disagree with making someone not have their freedom because everyone deserves a fair and equal opportunity. And they should just control people's lives a certain and we are all unique in different ways]]> 2021-09-20 16:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754550612 Nia Royal https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754565903 “...Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed.” 12/66 Huxley is saying that everyone is being pushed to be the same and in everyone being the same, people suffer mentally. This is shown with the pandemic for instance. Citizens are being forced to take the pandemic to be like everyone else, despite long term use being unknown, and different people reacting to the vaccine differently. Despite all this unknown stuff, it’s being shoved down people’s throats and they are ostracized if they don’t. They face loss of job, unable to go to school, go out to eat and do all the things they are used to do, and so naturally there will be a significant decline in mental health. The feeling of anxiousness for being forced to inject something into your body that you don’t know how it will harm you long-term, the depression or not being able to live financially if you don’t and the loss of pursuing education... all things that would contribute significantly to the basis of mental health being destroyed.]]> 2021-09-20 16:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754565903 Over-Organization sruliray https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754580888 YISROEL RAYMOND
"Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature." 

In religious circles, the prevailing motive seems to be that people find it their life's purpose to air their moral assumptions and values as objective truths when it is in fact impossible to establish said morals or values as objective truths. Most people understand authoritarian religious groups to be extremist or fundamentalist in their nature, but I put forward the idea that it is a short step from basic observance to those ultra orthodox ways of life. When one forms their life, their personality, their beliefs, hopes, and dreams on a higher power, they must by definition believe in the absolute truth of that doctrine, or they will soon lose faith in those ideas. Perhaps it is a simple aversion to cognitive dissonance, but regardless of the motives for why one must convince themselves of these "truths," the end result is always the same. If one thing is true, the other is false. If one man's god is the true God, the other's is false. If one man is an adherent of the "true" religion, then the other is living a life of immorality and heresy. The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, Christian Fundamentalists, and Islamic extremists all have this one thing in common: they believe they are the chosen servants of God, that their way of life is the one true way to serve god. While the result of Islamic extremism is a far more abhorrent result and can be equally condemned by all who have basic human decency, it is far more difficult to condemn Ultra-Orthodoxy and Christian fundamentalists. Indoctrination and the coercion used by organized religions works for many, but for those few who do not buy into those human distractions from the great question of human nature--what is our purpose, what is our meaning?--the damage of rejecting indoctrination creates individuals who are constantly at war with themselves. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/choice-and-rebirth/202006/the-invisible-demographic]]> 2021-09-20 16:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754580888 Jaylene Garcia jaylenegarcia25 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754593659 " We see, then, modern technology has led to the concentration of economic and political power, and to the development of a society controlled by big business and big government." I chose this quote because most business are affected by technology. ]]> 2021-09-20 16:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754593659 asia oneil https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754607320
"we know the pursuit of good ends does not justify the employment of bad means"
I chose this quote because no matter how pure your intentions seem to be something will definitely be wrong for someone else. 
for example we're helping afghans get out of their country but we can't help Haitians at the southern border]]> 2021-09-20 16:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754607320 Alis Rodriguez https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754624394 “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they don't even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does”

I chose this one because it really is reflective in our society and how we are not being progressive in this area. I see that there is a notion that people are less than others because of their mental illness. This happens many times in early childhood and creates a unhealthy mindset that instead of receiving Help they must hide and suffer forever.]]> 2021-09-20 16:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754624394 Sabrina Vega mariesabrina7 https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754699036 " These millions of abnormally normal people living without fuss in a society to which if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish "the illusion of individuality", but in fact have been to a great extent deindividualized"

I chose this quote because Huxley stresses the importance to being an individual, what makes us happy and what makes us different are important to our character. The society that's being built is has us conditioned and this is to ensure they get the perfect world that they want.
Huxley is asking us if we really feel that our happiness means more then our freedom so it poses one important question, are we really free?]]> 2021-09-20 16:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1754699036 Jalissa Jordan https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1760332263 “It’s basic assumption is that the social whole has greater worth and significance than its individual parts, that inborn biological differences should be sacrificed to cultural uniformity, that the rights of the collectively take precedence over what the eighteenth century called the Rights of Man.”

I chose this quote because it briefly explains how people turn to society to live their life instead of having individuality for themselves. Their freedom is kind of taken away from them meaning that they don’t really have an option to choose such as the vaccine in today’s world. It’s not mandatory but the government is forcing us to take it and if we don’t, our freedom to have fun and be outside is taken away.

]]> 2021-09-22 15:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1760332263 Justin Falcon https://padlet.com/ajdoylekbcc/ufb5yd04e29aw0dw/wish/1916791922 "You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."

 I chose this quotation because Mustapha Mond answers to John Savage's protestations that Shakespeare's literature is superior to anything produced by society's emotional engineering. I believe that happiness is the highest benefit in this world, and great writing can only emerge from conflict and suffering. Cultured civilization has sacrificed art in order to acquire the greatest amount of enjoyment possible.

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