Sunday, September 20, 2009

Is the object of our existence to be efficient by producing more people, or by helping machines produce and ultimately control or behaviors, or is the real objective of our existence as human beings to be happy by the love we have between our family members, and the everyday "special moments" that happen at random? This is where i disagree with the book a brave new world. I don't believe that by making the world a technologically advanced place of mass production we will ultimately gain happiness and knowledge. On the contrary i think that what makes us happy is the fact that we do have freedom to live our lives the way we choose, and by doing so we are able to establish a lifestyle we choose that makes us who we are and happy. Individuality to me does not come as a "society as a whole" but rather as the individual person by himself. The way he chooses to dress and act, and the lifestyle he chooses to follow. By expressing "individuality" as the whole society as in brave new world, i think they are in reality solely establishing a controlled society which is subject to their ideas of happiness. I see the argument in a way, that the author is trying to send to the readers, and if happiness and success was really measured in production than it would totally be correct, but i don't see it that way and therefore i don't believe it to be reality. However, i do believe that that ideas expressed in this book are extremely catchy. Because we dont know what the future will ever be like, i mean look at our society now, it is already so technologically advanced that its almost impossible to believe. Therefore, i also appreciate the fact that the author went the way he did with his ideas, which may seem so weird to us, but who knows what will happen, and we cant say we haven't atleast gave some thought to these ideas before.

2 comments:

  1. Jose you bring up some interesting points on this entry. Progress is made in Brave New World, but this is a bad sort of progress. It is a progress that eliminates emotions from people, robs the purpose of life, and leaves a robot like person just going through the daily motions. What would a world like this be like to live in? The experiences that make people happy in the novel are quite skewed. If they are able to produce more babies to the egg than another country then they are happy, if they can suppress the emotions of the people then they are happy, if they can make it seem like family and love are bad things then they are happy. Happy today would be something along the lines of having your first baby or graduating high school or college or something to that effect. They are basically at the opposite sides of the spectrum. The people in this novel have no purpose in life as you said. They have no aspirations or desires. They are fully content with their role in society because they don’t know any better. Life without purpose is like a compass without a needle...lost.

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  2. IM NOT GONNA LIE, I AGREED WITH YOU ON EVERYTHING AND I THOUGHT WE WOULD NOT. I LOVE HOW YOU STATED SO MUCH ABOUT INDIVIDUALISM AND FREEDOM. I LOKE HOW YOU STATED "...i think they are in reality solely establishing a controlled society which is subject to their ideas of happiness." THIS JUST PROVES YOUR POINT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FREEDOMS PEOPLE ARE LOSING. HAPPINESS IS WHAT PEOPLE STRIVE TO LIVE FOR AND I THINK YOU HIT THE POINT WHEN YOU SAID THAT I YOU DONT SEE IT AS A "reality." NICE BLOG JOSE!!

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