The major connection between Brave New World and Utopia is that they are both a Utopian society in someway. In both, everybody owns everything and each other. Because of this and other various, both societies are content and do not question their society.
One thing that I like in Brave New World is the ignorance. The people are purposefully made to not question or see anything wrong with the way they live, and they are perfectly content with what they have and what they do. The saying ignorance is bliss certainly holds true here.
That is also one of the things that troubles me with this book. Instead of being naturally made ignorant, they people have automatically made that way without their consent. The government is looking out for the whole and not the individual in this way.
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I'm a bit confused. Are you being ironic when you say one thing you like is the ignorance? If not, why would how people are kept ignorant be the one thing you most dislike?
yea i agree with your everybody owns everything. i remember reading more's utopia saying people really dont have personal possessions and if someone needs it its given to them. but um, i dont really see the greatness in ignorance and especially to that extent. i guess its a good thing if you want to maintain that utopia though.
ps. heck yea we need to make those feely tvs... and along with that we should make that musical scent machine. it sounds so simple to make. definitely.
I really do not agree with the way everyone owns everything and each other. Your supposed to find one person and be with them forever. Plus owning everything can just get annoying. The whole ignorance is bliss is troubling, I mean life is not made in a way that you can be completely oblivious to all that is really going on around you. You need to be able to tell if something is going wrong so that you can fix it, not just ignore it.
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