Diversity In Brave New World

In a terrifying dystopia, “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” (Huxley 1). Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, shows the starkness of a world where uniformity is paramount and diversity is despised as the root of instability. No one thinks for themselves, but instead they simple echo what they have been programmed to say. Every person is bred to act and think the same as others in their social class. Diversity is shunned along with old world beliefs and conservative morals. Some may say that this work of fiction is far from current reality, but with the endless social and aesthetic standards that individuals attempt to live up to today, is this book a warning

In Brave New World, the government uses Bokanovsky’s Process to divide a single egg into twins. These are not twins as we have now where “an egg [will] sometimes accidentally divide; [rather, these eggs divide] actually by dozens, by scores at a time” (Huxley 18). By this process, the government is able to have a large group of identical people under their control. The government is then able to choose what the child will do in life. Moreover, by the government predestining their life and social class, they determine what jobs they will have. In the book, the government decides to make these clones less intelligent than the average citizens and have them do the manufacturing jobs. They then give them drugs to make them happy with where they are so they do not ever want to do anything different. Through cloning, they are also able to easily regulate how many children are born and can even decide what they want the children to look like (Ramsey 8). The government has turned the human thought process around from one where pregnancy is a gift to one where pregnancy is a burden and it is easier to just grow children in laboratories. Cloning “opens the way to further work on human embryos in the laboratory” by allowing the government to change the appearance and even the physical stature of the person before they are ever born (Ramsey 8). These physical differences make people avoid others from different social classes that do not look like them. Cloning is the second way that the government of Brave New World is able to control its citizens. Instead of worrying about an enormous population of individuals with many diverse ways of thinking, they instead only have to worry about a small group to