Sunday, March 20, 2016

Brave New World Chapter 3: The More Stitches, the Less Riches

"One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopaedia. Sixty-two thousand repetitions make one truth. Idiots!" (Huxley 47).

Scientific and technological advancements hurt humanity because these "advancements" are allowing them to be manipulated and completely under government control. The government uses hypnopaedia, or sleep teaching, on its citizens to ingrain certain beliefs into people to train and control them. These phrases are repeated so many times, that the people reach a point where it is not something that can be disputed - it is pure fact. This is dangerous because using this form of manipulation, the people have no control over their lives and it is completely up to the government to decide how they act and what they believe. People are not allowed to think for themselves, and when they start to, the other citizens think something is wrong with them and give them soma, a drug, to sedate them back into their stable reality. The government's main goal is stability, and they use this technology to keep their people hypnotized and under their complete control, sucking all the individuality and freedom from society. 

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