Taylor Ruth Baldwin

 Tumblr houses many creative people, one of which is Taylor-Ruth Baldwin. As Wired explains, she first started posting panels from her diary, and in a few months, she went viral. I really enjoyed her comics, more than anything I love what she tries to say in each of them. If you have any spare time, check her out here, she really is quite funny .

In the text, "What May Happen In The Next Hundred Years (published in 1900)," John Elfreth Watkins Jr. predicts what will happen in the next 100 years.  If you compare it with Aldous Huxleys book Brave New World, you can find many similarities. Like the fact that you will be able to travel from England to any place in the world in less that two days, and that there will be a machine for everything, but none of them are as accurate as the one about how there will be no wild animals, except in menageries. Menageries, are exactly like the place where Savage comes from, "a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition*". You can see that Aldous Huxley was greatly influenced by the predictions of the people before him. Both talked about the improvement of machines, but one about how it will lead us to good, and the other about how it will lead us to changing the face of the human race. Two predictions, portraying the same idea, somehow bring us two totally different conclusions. One about a world a step closer to utopia, the other to dystopia.

* www. dictionary . com

Our Identity

 Our homework today was to write about our englihs class today. It started with our teacher talking about the things that people had posted about the day before. He then asked us what we thought made up our identity. Our responses ranged from environment to food, genes to dreams, and many other topics. Later on our teacher  told us to pick three that we think really makes up our identity and put a percentage on how important we think it is. Mine were experiences (30%), environment (20%), health (3%), genes (7%), personality (40%). After this, we were told to pick a geometrical figure that we think best fits our identity. I picked a parallelogram because although they have two parallel side, they also have angles that can always change, they can become a square, or a diamond, or even a flat line. That's pretty much all we did today.

Brave New World

I've just finished reading the book, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and was struck by how much our society is beginning to resemble theirs. When I had read , "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, I had seen how our lives could turn into theirs in the future, but it did not seem very likely. With so much misery in our world, I would not be surprised if everyone just gave up truth and science just be happy. The book makes sense, engineering the working class to enjoy what they are doing so that they do not complain. Abolishing parenthood because it is too much responsibility, and resbonsibility always leads to sorrow. Engineering men so that they do not age,  raising the children so that they do not love. Lifting religion, because as Mustapha Mond explains, "'You can only be independant of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independance won't take you safely to the end.' Well, we've now got youth and prosperity up to the very end. What follows? Evidently that we can be independant of God." Although now we think of a world like this ridiculous and out there, governments have already begun hiding the truth, it's only a matter of time before they do it in the name of Happiness.