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.