Dystopian Journal #1

"He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwords, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal..." (Huxley 32)

Huxley's scientific-based society in Brave New World is one very different from ours. In our world, it is safe to say that there are plenty of human beings living and consuming. The United States' population has reached more than 300,000,000, and one can even say there are too many people on Earth. The planet has problems with too much consumption, and that is arguably the most pressing issue with the world today. But in Huxley's world, public opinion is the complete opposite. There is no such thing as "overpopulated". People are being "created" as numerously and as quickly as possible. The philosophy of Huxley's world is vastly different: the higher number of people in a society, the stronger the society. More things can be made, more can be consumed, and it's a constant circle. People are made to consume and enjoy the concept of making more people, so products are continually consumed and the society's values are kept strong. A word to describe the society perfectly is "efficient". No one person has more of a destiny than helping make consumer products and consuming products. This makes for a very rich society, indeed, and a very self-sufficient one at that.

Word count: 201