Postman’s assertions about Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World truly reflect the direction in which our society is going. The path looks to clearly point out how we live and who we are as a society. Society has become more and more self- involved and anti-social. Mainly, Postman’s assertions of people coming to love their oppression and adore the technologies that undo our capacities to think, of what we love to do and enjoy to do destroying us, and that truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. The human race is becoming more dependant on their technologies. In Brave New World, it was their technology to be appeased at all times. For example when Lenina was feeling extremely depressed, “ she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity” (95). She adored the technology that made life easy, making it so she wouldn’t have to think of her stressful situations and just drift off to wherever she wanted. This is fine but only in moderation, and moderation is something that human beings do not compose well. People are also being trained to love oppression. In Brave New …show more content…
This is shown through how John tried to show the society in Brave New World the truth and how they reacted to it by “howling, the Deltas charged with a redoubled fury” (146). John tried to give them the truth of the soma, but it was irrelevant and meant nothing to them it only meant that they lost what they held dear and it angered the people. Even when the people are friends with John they aren’t accepting of the truth, for example when Bernard was mad at John and instead of listening to what John’s truth about happiness was he retorts with “When it’s you who were the cause of it all. Refusing to come to my party and so turning them all against me!” (119). We as a society today do the same, having a disregard for what is true and just taking news as it is never checking to see if it is