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Essay / Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - 738
The book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley is a radical story that is interpreted as a potential warning to us, society, if we continue to do bad life choices. In the novel, Huxley depicts a culture in which people are programmed to live forever and forced to think that sex and drugs are. To them, the idea of starting a family with a mother and a father is absolutely repugnant. Even though some of Huxley's thoughts are unrealistic, their significance is visible today. Today, the three ideas that bring us closer to the brave new world are technological advances, the obsession with staying young, and the increasing rate of drug use. The first way our world resembles the brave new world is our desire to stay young. In Huxley's macrocosm, people are made to live without any aesthetic changes; they're supposed to look the same since day one. But you can undo your youth by taking too much medicine, soma. They have nothing to fight against their aging unlike us. Today, in many cultures, it seems that young people are revered and admired. As people get older, they may believe they will be treated differently because they are "too old" or perhaps they are looking for a relationship and believe that looking younger will make them more attractive. In previous generations, older people were treated with a little more respect, but today's culture seems to prefer a youthful appearance; This makes some older people feel like they need to use anti-aging products or have plastic surgery to avoid looking dated. This is evident in today's markets; Market research firm Global Industry Analysts predicts that the baby boomer-fueled consumer base, which strives to keep the signs of aging at bay, will grow... middle of paper...... an increase that is difficult to understand. Since 2000, they have seen a 770% increase in new users. Nationwide, the number of new users increased by 60%. Unfortunately, due to the increasing rate of heroin use, the number of deaths due to excessive heroin use has increased by more than 45%. It is clear from these figures that we are becoming more and more like the inhabitants of Brave New World. When reading Brave New World, we think that it is a completely unrealistic world, but that is no longer the case. Our society is proving itself to be more like Brave New World through our technological advancements, our desire to stay young, and our increasing drug use. All of these factors are bringing our world ever closer to the one Huxley predicted over 80 years ago; a world we should be afraid of instead of like it.