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Individualism In Brave New World

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In a totalitarian society, the goal is to abate the ideas of individuality, inquisitiveness, and the true identity of the citizens in order to force them to be subservient to the state. In George Orwell’s novel “1984”, totalitarianism is depicted through severe control, censorship, and “Big Brothers” monitoring of every citizen perpetually everyday and everywhere. Similarly, totalitarianism plays a major role in Aldous Huxley’s fictional book “Brave New World”, where humans are no longer developed and raised by parents, but rather synthetically created, conditioned, and predestined for their roles in the World State. The removal of individualism and natural human rights creates a dystopian society in which personal freedoms and liberties are …show more content…

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If Google is Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’, then Donald Trump can clearly be seen as Huxley’s ‘Ford’. Trump is a product of the brainwashing and dumbing down of America. He speaks lies and declares them to be truths. He admonishes anyone who finds fault with him or his beliefs, languishing in his own self-righteousness that only he can be right, that everyone else and everything else is wrong. He is a demigod in his own mind, with no moral compass or compassion for anyone but himself and his misguided

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