Brave New World Vs Today

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a utopian society that seemingly has more problems than it leads on. The book although written in 1932 still has some comparisons to today's day. There is no such thing as a utopia because a perfect society does not exist. In Brave New World there are flaws in the utopian society that Huxley points out and talks about. “As he (Huxley) saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” In Brave New World this was a major point, the characters in the book, linda for example would take soma (a drug) to avoid her problems and it would lower her thinking capacity. I agree with this, in the world now we use technology like our phones or laptops for anything and everything. No one now uses a dictionary but instead use their phone to look up definitions. Technology has taken over and shortened our capacities to think, if we have a question whether big or small we don’t stop to think about it or ask anyone else about it we go straight to our phones and use google. What Huxley saw and thought was not to far from the truth seeming that it happened less than a century later.

Fake news keeps coming out because we eat it up, we like gossiping more than hearing the truth. We like to hear bad things about people rather than to support or help one another, which is why fake news is still prevalent today. Fake news drowns the truth like Huxley said, and it is what we are attracted to. We are attracted to fake news because we live for the drama, we don’t like to be involved in it, but we like to hear about it and egg it