Sunday, September 20, 2009
Why? Really who comes up with these ideas to write these kinds of things? I mean who wakes up one day and decides that I am going to write a book about creating humans in forms of 96 so that they are identical and not possess any different characteristics. Not only is this against my beliefs, but it is just straight up weird. Besides my believes, Aldous Huxley is trying to take everyone’s individuality away from them. People are supposed to be able to grow up and learn and be challenged how to do things. The way that they are grown up is a way of a robot and they are predestined in everything they do. Life is a gift and how can it be cherished, or actually how can a human being be cherished, if there are 95 others just like you? And what all the pleasures that came while having that baby? First you have that romantic night, then you go to the doctor to hear you’re pregnant, you wait 9 months, and then all of a sudden a human being is born. All that joy is all washed away. Now people get to see their children, or maybe someone else’s, moving along a conveyor belt as they go through their stages. And, the worst part about it is that really none of it is yours. It is directly placed into the government’s hands and out of yours. To tell you the truth I guess this is really all against my beliefs. I mean really is everyone really going to want to worship Henry Ford and what his assembly line created? Technically, we have the technology to do this today. Wouldn’t that be the day when there was the first human being cloned. Personally I think that Aldous Huxley is an idiot but I am excited to read his work just to see what he has to say.
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Hey Ryan. (look, a friend! ^^)
ReplyDeleteI think you have some good ideas so far. The bit about life not being cherished in that book is right on the mark. Also, I really liked your comment on how nothing belongs to you. The people in the book always say that everything belongs to everyone else, but really, what you said was right. Everything belongs to the government. And the people are too opressed to realize.
The one thing you said about Huxley advocating this is wrong though I think. The point of this novel was to scare people, and warn them about not valuing human life in favor of science. Most likely, this idea repulsed him. Often times, writers write the opposite of what they believe to show a point.
Anyways, good blog. :-)
Andrea