How many of you read “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley in high school? Somehow I missed the train back then. Earlier this year, over a decade since high school, I read the novel and was blown away. After reading it as an adult, I couldn’t help but wonder that a lot of the meaning behind the story was lost on high schoolers. Reading it completely fresh in the year 2024 had significant impact on me. Prepare yourself for a “We were warned!” type of article.
A quick and partial synopsis: The story focuses on a handful of characters in a horrible future London where people are created in labs and by design are no longer significantly unique. There are several different social classes and no mobility in between. The people belonging to each class are specifically trained to be content in their class and have disdain for those below and admiration for those above. A child of the modern world but raised on an Indian reservation makes it back to London and both causes and feels significant distress.
The story opens with a tour through the baby-making facility, which is extremely unnatural. Instead of procreation the natural way, these children are made up in lab settings where up to 96 identical siblings can be made. These sets of siblings go down the line to be added with different ratios of chemicals so that they develop exactly as the factory desires. The less capable are trained to know that they are on the lower end of the social ladder, and those designed to run the world know it as well. Having mothers and fathers and being birthed (as opposed to “decanted” as they call the factory work) is taboo, vulgar, offensive. In the real world, we have tons of precursors to the systems in the book: processes like IVF, young people’s access to the wider world by way of Tik Tok and other garbage, etc.
From ages as young as 6 or so, the children are encouraged to partake in erotic play with each other. This helps reinforce the idea that “Everyone belongs to each other” as they grow into adulthood. Once they are in adulthood, depending on their social status, they are expected to sleep around with as many people as possible. The idea of monogamy is not only very frowned upon, but also can get people in trouble in their professional lives. The women have a process to make sure they never get pregnant, again having or being a mother is no good in this society. If we lift our eyes from the story, we see children being invited to and involved in drag shows, degeneracy and fetishists running around under the disguise of Pride, frequent marriages and divorces being advertised (did you see Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are going for round two?). Planned Parenthood operated a free mobile abortion and vasectomy clinic near the Democratic National Convention. If that’s not one of the most abhorrent things happening in America this week, I’d be surprised.
When folks start to have opinions of their own, they get in trouble. That’s the biggest conflict in Brave New World, the main characters have the audacity to think that there may be more to life than being drugged up and following the process for life that the government established. This is probably the easiest to see in the modern world as it has been happening for years. The important thing is these characters try to find the truth, and get punished for it. Real life examples: See censorship, anything involving dissent regarding the COVID vaccines, etc.
All of the measures to guide humans into adulthood in “Brave New World” are measures that take away from the fullness of life. In our real world, the more that we tolerate things that are not right and not natural will also take away the fullness of life for us. Time spent buried in apps like Tik Tok and Instagram (which I believe have grown to be the two worst) limits our time in the real world. We lose the opportunity to use the fullness of our free time. Tolerating the destructive gender ideology enables those who are taking part, such as the trannys and non-binaries, from living the fullness of their own lives as they were created. These people hinder the fullness of social interaction between causing confusion with pronouns and forcing themselves into places they do not belong. Promiscuity takes away the fullness of building and growing a family. In “Brave New World” the characters have their drug soma, in our world we have alcohol, narcotics, psychedelics, all of which limits the fullness of life in many senses then they are abused.
As we come up to the next presidential election, we need to make sure and vote for the leader likely to preserve the fullness of life.
Bayou Observant 