Brave New World Interview Essayito

We are not currently in what Aldous Huxley calls a brave new world. However, we are quickly heading in that direction. The society he depicts in his novel is one where the individual does not exist, a world where you belong to everyone and everyone to you. Huxley says in this interview that the first sign, or the first limiting force is overpopulation. It can be easily seen that we are heading in this direction. We are putting so much pressure on limited resources, attempting to maintain our population alive, we want to keep an unlimited amount of humans alive with limited resources. Overpopulation can easily be seen in the novel, 96 IDENTICAL TWINS. 

Technology is another huge issue that Huxley hits on in the interview. He goes on to explain that technology can aid us, but it can also CONTROL us. The idea of technological advances controlling us can already be seen, in a sense. If you look around our world, this generation, and all those under this generation, cannot live without a phone, a computer, a television constantly on in their presence. Innovation associated with technology is also associated with power, Huxley believes technology will not be used in correct or even moral ways in the near future. Even now we are constantly pushed to "try this new product" or "choose this over that," who's to say it won't eventually lead to political or social propaganda, a way to control the public and to brainwash the people. Technology can also be used to distract the people from what truly occurs in the world, from all the corruption, injustice, and immoral actions of those who are in power. Technology works to make our lives easier, to ease our minds of petty problems, and in the process eliminates our ability to think for ourselves.

Organization, or over organization, also limits the amount of freedom and individuality we hold. Once something is organized, once it is set to be done a certain way, it becomes a routine, once it becomes a routine we lose all emotion, and all freedom associated with the task. We must get things done efficiently and correctly, we must be organized, the system must have "stability."