Identity, And Stability In Brave New World, By Aldous Huxley

“Community, Identity, and Stability”, the all-encompassing and sovereign motto, is taken as a fact and embraced in the world of Huxley’s vision, Brave New World, a dystopian novel in which humanity is brainwashed and controlled. Not by some foreign threat but as a product of themselves, of the human condition for laziness, and for happiness to remain as the only emotion. Huxley’s vision of future civilization is a technologically authoritarian regime of too much innovation and distractors with too few self-freedoms or passions for true intellectual expression. It is a paradox that in, the pursuit of community, identity, and stability, what the government produces couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the sacrifices exhausted of the citizens are not worth the goal of “social stability” because, in this “Utopian” society, uniform satisfaction and happiness beget a decline in the worth and

An economic dehumanization, as it may be called, when the director, a representative of the government, amidst the “desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps”, contrasts the horrifying tone with his scream of “Excellent!” and how he “bawled in explanation” at his triumphs displays his priorities of economic gain over the true happiness and importance of human life and his own immoral compass towards other individuals, an extension of the World State’s government. Furthermore, ____. In our own history, Huxley’s society could be compared to the existence of Stalin’s communism. While contradictions can be made against the comparison of the capitalist-based economy of Huxley’s envisioning vs. the anti-capitalist ideals of communism, both ideals aimed to create a truly Utopian society devoid of suffering by having total control over the people, which the two men each had their own different conclusions on the methodology with which to achieve that dream. While Stalin wasn’t able to achieve complete class singularity, almost all citizens in