So, all you assorted people out there. I read the book A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and I hope his prediction of the future isn't accurate.
I was inspired to read this book when I saw that it was at least a second year course book for Walter Peyton College Preparatory High School.
In his book, no one was born naturally, they were all 'decanted'. To be called a mother was an insult. Every person was part of a caste. Everyone was addicted to 'Soma', which seems like a type of hallucination inducing drug. Every child was subjected to sleep teaching, where recorded voices repeated 'moral' phrases. This firmly ingrained certain rhymes about their world in the child's head wile they were sleeping.There was no such thing as marriage, it was considered anti-social to not conform to the strict regimen of free love, except without the love, and drug use. To stay with someone for more than a week, this was considered odd. And don't even get me started on the 'savage preserves'. These were small areas of land that the Alpha ++'s , or the 'world controllers' deemed insignificant, resource wise. People who decided to stay living here were treated as savages, and treated as if in a zoo. High ups could schedule an appointment to visit one of the savage reserves, and travel by helicopter above all the 'savages'. Savages, feelies, which were a type of 5d performance that was directly administered into the senses, Soma, and Obstacle golf. This was their world.
And can you not see why I wouldn't want this world to turn out this way?
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I want to make note for all those of you who don't know me, I'm in eighth grade, and just read a tenth or eleventh grade course book from one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation
WOW noah thats very prestigious of you! nice post btw
1) Your have a great style of writing, liek cynical mixed with sarcastic mixed with enjoyable mixed with flowing and easy to read and 2) GEEZ! Talk about freaking distopias!
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