Globalization In Brave New World

Globalization in society: Social complacency in Brave New World and The True Cost
A Brave New World is a book written by Aldous Huxley and The True Cost is a documentary about the fashion industry, but they both talk about how in current society, and in the near future, our happiness is manufactured, through a interconnected, societal want to globalize western society. While A Brave New World was written in 1932, as a prediction of what the future might come to, it is surprisingly accurate as pointed out in The True Cost which was made in 2015. Authors and documentarians like, Huxley, and the creators of The True Cost use their work to influence social context, because these people take time to think about the ramifications of the subject

They died in fires or collapsing buildings, horrific ways to go and it is so angering that to society, their lives were worth such a small sum. As an effect of this massive loss of life in the factories of outsourced clothing manufacturing, the following year, 2014 was the industries most profitable of all time. The clothing companies do not have to pay the workers who died and in 2013-2014 it obviously worked out great for them. Fashion is extremely profitable for a handful of people, but at great expense to the rest of the world. This three million dollar industry makes it seem as if it can not support its workers when the reality is it could do that and so much more for the betterment of the world. Instead, they can not even make sure their workers are supported with basic human rights, like a wage that a family could survive off of, or even just safety regulations. It shows which people society thinks are expendable, for other ‘more important’ peoples

These divides in our community include racism, sexism, gun violence, and a tangible divide in the socio-economic structures of america, like the upper, middle, and lower class. In the book Brave New World it discusses that view as a theme. Themes are fundamental and often universal ideas explored in literary works, and this book has quite a few. It discusses the divide between the socio-economic structures, by talking about a consumer society like in The True Cost. While the attitudes and behaviors of World State citizens at first appear crazy, many clues point to the conclusion that the World State is an extreme—but accurately contrived —version of our society’s economic values, in which individual happiness is defined as the ability to satisfy needs, and success as a society is equated with economic growth and prosperity. Only those in the higher class of this society are allowed that prosperity though, and that is clearly reflected by our modern world.
In our modern world, there is also a surplus of technology in our pockets, with the invention of the smartphone. One of Brave New World’s main ideas is that there will be a use of technology to control society, and that is quite prevalent to the world we are living in. If people do not have a smartphone then they are considered an outlier in our society today.