"The savage stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably . . . Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry" (Huxley 206).
Scientific and technological advancements did not benefit humanity because they turned humans into robot-like creatures. With these advancements, people were conditioned to view death as something that just happened and did not affect them at all. They were conditioned not to love anyone and to reject the ideas of marriage, parents, and families. As a result, death meant nothing to them. They did not love anyone, so they did not care when anyone died. Love has been a major life force for all people, but the conditioning methods used in Brave New World took this away from people. When someone you love dies, you grieve their death, and then you heal. In the World State, however, people are conditioned to not care about it at all and not even worry about what will happen to them when they die. These scientific and technological advancements did not benefit humanity in any way, and instead took a vital part of life away from it.
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