So after reading Brave New World and pondering over the purpose of the writing, I finally found a solid argument to base my essay on. It has come to my attention that a major parallel that can be crossed between life under the government in the New Order and life today is that the majority of people live in such a way to obtain instant gratification.Whether its from popping soma to having sex more often than rabbits, people under the control of the government are conditioned to please their feelings in the moment. Likewise, in the world today everyone seeks to please themselves through the consumerism and fast-food nation we have become.
The sources I plan on using to help contribute to my arguments is Sir Ken Robinson's Youtube video about Changing Education Paradigms and Naomi Klein's chapter in her book called "Alt. Everything: The Youth Market and the Marketing of Cool". In Sir Ken Robinson's video, there is a point when he talks about the "Epidemic" of ADHD and how if you pop a pill, everything instantly becomes better since the student can now focus in class instead of paying attention to the distractions around him/her. This shows the parallel between the New Order and life today by soma being the "solve all" pill if you ever feel down, which follows the same paradigm as with ADHD pills. In Naomi Klein's writing, it is mentioned that the youth today are all about consumerism and how if there was a concert without any merchandise, there would be an uproar; meaning that Americans are 'programmed' to buy, buy, buy. Likewise, in the New World government, the people that are produced are conditioned to consume whatever the output the economy is creating, whatever it may be. This conditioning occurs during the early production of the fetus and is necessary to the overall stability of the New World, which in a way is the same as the economy today.
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