Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Brave New World / Aldous Huxley / chapter 17

“’But God doesn’t change.’ ‘Men do, though.’” (Huxley 231).  It is interesting how much they have to restrict science to make their culture work.  The controller also claimed that it was science that had made this society possible but also science that could easily bring it all crashing down again.  It is interesting how the controller acknowledges that their may be a god.  He realizes that he may have existed and still might but their society does not head him.  Older civilizations needed a god to make their lives worth living.  The new world does not need god be cause they are already happy.  I find thins very unsettling. They may all be happy but they live lives that are not worth much.  Why don’t the controllers just let the world crumble bake into non existence?  Which out a god what do the controllers live for other that to keep a meaningless society alive.

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