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Trivial Culture In Brave New World

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In Aldous Huxley’s book the Brave New World, He displayed trivial culture differently than modern trivial Culture. With the difference that each has I believe that trivial culture has taken over our society with screens and electronic advancements. Brave New World itself uses pleasure as a distraction or preoccupies society into a sleeping beauty. Techniques in the Brave
New World such as hypnopaedia, unnatural birth, and the feely movie theaters, and lastly the holy grail, soma, each of these sources of pleasure make society docile while in the real world.
Social media gives that sense of being included and “in the loop” which makes flock of users of screens a trivial culture.
In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley creates a reality that the …show more content…

Each person has purpose and is set in a role into society.
Brave New World also has a set way of birth and that during the process Aldous Huxley uses the technique of hypnopaedia. Some examples of this are “A gramme is always better than a damn,”
“Everyone works for everyone else,” “Everybody’s happy nowadays” and “Progress is lovely.”
These phrases of hypnopaedia are used throughout the book, Aldous Huxly writes each a creed as moral guidelines for characters to follow such as Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx. This matches the grasp social media has on today and it's participants. Myself as a user of youtube and twitter find that it's hard not to reach for my phone and find that escape for five minutes even when not needed.
The latch that has grown onto the back of the world such as social media, screens, and etc, resembles the leech of soma in The Brave New World. Soma in itself uses the same purpose as social media, always distracting. Such as “that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds.” (Pg 77). Later in the section
“And yet, bottled as she was, and in spite of that second gramme of soma...”, it seems at

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