Conditioning In Brave New World

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“Conditioning: To have a significant influence on or determine the manner or outcome.” (Britannica.) Conditioning impacts our lives daily, for example, when students say the pledge prior to school starting. It takes place with society being oblivious, like in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. A great deal of controversy has not changed from history's past up to today's society as in religion, government, and social classes. Humanity is too blind to see that society is just a never ending cycle of events that impact history and our lives. Adolf Hitler was a sinister, powerful symbol that started his rise to power in 1920. “In 1921, Hitler was voted chairman of the party and took total control.”(Pappas.) Hitler than started to condition his nation into assuming that Jews were the reason Germany had endured such a extensive decline in their economy. Hitler and the Nazi party began benefiting support by constructing propaganda appealing to the patriotism of Germany’s citizens. ”In Germany, six million are …show more content…

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