"Sometimes, for several days, Linda didn't get up at all. She lay in bed and was sad. Or else she drank the stuff that Pope brought and laughed a great deal and went to sleep . . . often she forgot to wash him, and there was nothing to eat except cold tortillas" (Huxley 127).
As science and technology advanced, society like we currently know disappeared. There was no marriage, no families, and no natural birth. All births were controlled by the government. Special chemicals, and in some cases, toxins, were added to the test tubes to predetermine how every person in society would turn out. Part of this manipulation was that intelligence was controlled to leave everyone like infants. They were hypnopaedically controlled to be completely dependent on the government. Linda grew up like this, but then accidentally got pregnant and had a child. Because of the environment she was raised in, she had no idea how to take care of a child and was unable to understand the basic functions of society. She could not grasp the concept of marriage and raising as child, and, as a result, the life of her son, John, was negatively affected. Scientific and technological advancements do not benefit humanity because it allowed their intelligence to be manipulated to stay at an infantile level and left them unable to care for themselves or others.
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