Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is set in a dystopian society where everyone is a clones. Everything is given to the people of all the different tiers in society. They are given these pleasures to make them not desire anything else in the world, and they’re continuously kept “happy”. There are many different pleasures to keep them at entertained, orgies, sports, feelies, and souma just to name a few. Now our current day society has a lot of the same entertainment as the book. We have sports, we have channels that cover nothing but sports, and we have plenty of different sports to play. There is the adult film industry and actual orgies that people go to just for fun. Feelies are films and TV shows and we have a boatload of them god and bad quality. Plus, souma is a legal drug. Sound …show more content…
Oh yeah that’s right states have legalized the use of weed for recreational use. Now what does this do for both societies? Well to put simply it is there to keep us happy so we don’t start thinking about the issues that is happening around us. The instant pleasures in both worlds are for us to escape and not think about the world we live in. Webster defines sports as: a source of diversion or a physical activity engaged in pleasure. Now we as country is obsessed with sports. A study by gallup.com showed that around 60% of Americans watched sports on a consistent basis. They also found that coming from a higher income household would lead to that person having a higher chance of becoming a sports fan. It’s the same in Brave New World as only Alphas the highest in the caste system are able to participate in sports. The lower classes like the Deltas and Epsilons go to work, take souma and watch feelies. There is mention that Deltas and Epsilons being allowed to watch sports or being able to play sports. In a 2014 Forbes contributor Bob Cook wrote an article about the percentage of athletes that make it from a poor