Brave New World part 1

        As the thousands of people who are reading this blog must know, Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley that is set approximately 500 years in the future. It is set in a "utopia" in which the World State controls people and forces them to live in a frigid caste system under the pretense that this creates stability and keeps people content. As much as characters like the Director try to make this world seem perfect, the reader quickly sees how this wonderful world is much more of a dystopia.
        The first couple of chapters are set in the London hatchery and conditioning center where a group of kids are on some sort of weird field trip.Their tour consists of seeing how the factory creates humans( a whole bunch of scientific mumbo jumbo in which I practically zoned out on) and how they are given pre-destined futures. The latter part is much more interesting in a sadistic kind of way. We see how some fetuses are given less oxygen than others so they can have less intelligence( how rude!) and how some infants are given shock therapy so they won't like books(how demented!).
        I really enjoyed these couple of chapters for many reasons. One, although the story is set way into the future its still slightly realistic. No one is flying and no one is talking to animals. There is a lot of scientific talk which also helps keep it more to the scientific part than the fiction part. Two, I love how evil the world is. The kids are flabbergasted when they hear of families and humans giving birth which was quite funny. The whole shocking kids to make them hate certain things is also a really cool(albeit horrible and crazy) idea. The whole world raises very conflicting emotions in me. One one hand I hate how they practically torture people into being happy with their lives and what they have. One the other hand, how many people today hate their jobs and lives? How many wouldn't mind going through some kind of shock therapy when they're young (in which it's very short and you won't even be able to remember the pain when you're older) in order to be happy and content with their lives? In that world humans aren't given much choice but they're happy in their ignorance, in ours we are given choice but also the pain that comes with it(war, hate, depression). Which one is better? Gurl I don't even know.