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Essay / Brave New World: Was Aldous Huxley right? - 1442
Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is a book which for me is more of a warning than an entertainment. In the book, Huxley writes about a future civilization and how everything in life is simplified. Babies are created in factories and are designed the way scientists want them to be. Relationships are completely irrelevant and frowned upon in this world. People are distracted from true beauty and left to submit to a false world. Since this book was written in 1931, Huxley obviously had no knowledge of new age technology. But many of the warnings he wrote actually came true. Cloning is now a very hot topic in the scientific community, which could actually lead to artificial birth, as Huxley wrote. Video games are now one of the most profitable industries and are now more immersive than ever. And according to multiple studies, sexual promiscuity is reaching an unprecedented level among adolescents. The mind is an incredible tool. It allows human beings to decipher problems, feel emotions, decide things for themselves and experience life holistically. But the mind is also easily distracted. In Huxley's world, people are distracted from the world around them by interactive films called "Feelies." “Feelies” are films that allow the viewer to experience the film in more than one sense. At first glance, this doesn't seem to be a problem. But upon examination, it is. For example, in the hit movie “Inception,” people can enter their dreams and experience them as real-life experiences for as long as they want. With regulation, this would pose no problem; People can come and go in their dreams as they please. But some people lose the ability to distinguish reality from a dream. They choose to spend the middle of the paper presenting points of view in context. Internet. January 24, 2011. “Adolescent Sexual Behavior.” Current issues: Macmillian Social Sciences Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Internet. January 24, 2011. “Adolescent sexuality and pregnancy.” Growing Up: Issues Affecting America's Youth. Melissa J. Doak. 2007 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Information Plus Reference Series. Gale Opposing viewpoints in context. Internet. January 24, 2011. “Barely Legal: TV Sells Teen Sex to Girls; the V-Chip doesn't help because the audiences aren't accurate. » Washington Times [Washington, DC] December 21, 2010: B02. Gale Opposing viewpoints in context. Internet. January 24, 2011. “Fathers should not exploit their daughters’ sexuality. » Is childhood becoming too sexualized. Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. At issue. Gale Opposing viewpoints in context. Internet. January 24. 2011.