“Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it is much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.” - Dolores Huerta

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Brave New World - Chapter 1

  • Setting: Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, A.F (After Ford) 632
  • Director of Hatchery showing around students, and the process of fertilization
  • Bokanovsky's Process: egg buds, proliferate, and divide > 8 to 96 buds (96 IDENTICAL TWINS) > PROGRESS! > mass production applied to biology
  • Where does the advantage of the above lay? > Major instruments of social stability.
  • All "humans" are 'predestine and condition[ed]'
  • "we don't need human intelligence."
  • "All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny." > doesn't sound like a utopia at all
  • Repetition: "Straight from the horses mouth." > "from the most authentic source"
Vocabulary:
  • largesse: generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others:
  • morula: a solid ball of cells resulting from division of a fertilized ovum, and from which a blastula is formed.
  • sultry: (of the air or weather) hot and humid.
  • corpus luteum: a hormone-secreting structure that develops in an ovary after an ovum has been discharged but degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun.
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