"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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The paper describes all the ills present in modern society and shows how high-technology can be used to right these problems. The paper continues by discussing how, despite the use of technology, society continues to be plagued by poverty and unhappiness. The paper then describes the world in Huxley's book "Brave New World" where technology has rearranged the world and men. The paper analyzes the book with the premise that technology exists to serve and help achieve the purpose of man, not to frustrate or replace it. The paper shows how the citizens of Huxley's New World are programmed to seek false happiness by searching for objectives and personal truths which make life meaningful. The paper concludes that personal responsibility and accountability is the only real solution to the world's ills.

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"In the New World, the conscience is stifled from birth, and should it show up in the form of unpleasant feelings of anxiety when a citizen breaks one of the universal laws pre-written in him, the soma is available to dull or stifle that moral twang or uneasiness in an instant. The erring person can feel "good" and moral within himself again. The soma is the New World's approach to the pain of conscience, not to the issue that brings pain to the conscience, and hence the sedation is as false as the entire principle of this New World."

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