Brave New World The Brave New World speaks of a world where material comfort and physical pleasure are the only concerns, where humans are not born but created and conditioned according a strict caste system developed by society. Imagine a culture where the concept of family is non-existent and the idea of aging, giving natural births and dying are their worse horror. How unrealistic one might think, yet so relevant to today’s notion of …showed first 75 words of 550 total…

…showed last 75 words of 550 total…a prescription of Prozac. Any pain that can be prevented or eliminated, more than likely we have a cure for. Now how is this any different from “soma” in the Brave New World? My point is that on some level we’ve already reached the Brave New World, maybe not as bluntly as it is depicted in the book, but we have. And what’s even more frightening is that we haven’t realized it.