The Threat of Technological Growth

The use of innovative technologies to control the entire society is one of the most common problems encountered by people in their everyday lives. Basically, this topic is quite controversial, so there are many arguments involved because of its unethical and disruptive use. When it comes to then world structure described by Huxley in The Brave New World, the abuse of the technological growth gets to the point where all children are predestined as specific categories of individuals, including Epsilons and Alphas.

This popular book describes the society where all people are divided into specific classes from their birth as the key focus of the government is to keep progressing technologically. Besides, they all are forced to live in a specific way and depend on the consumer-oriented mentality and culture. The aspirations and morals of this society seem quite strange to readers because they are quite different. They are not focused on such important matters as success, love, and family, because they are targeted at economy, industry, improvement, and technological growth.

The society where all people have to live their controlled lives means that their basic rights are also limited. For example, people suffer from the lack of loving, having their families, and friends. With the widespread use of generic engineering, the government can control their actions and behaviors to present the power and stability of this world structure, which is quite beneficial only to it. The main targets of this society include stability, identity, and community.

After reading this famous book, it becomes clear that all members of this society are kept in the darkness due to the faulty and mischievous intentions and goals of their government. To achieve the necessary stability, they need to lose their own individuality, and it means that all people need to act, think, and have the same opinions that defeat the main purpose of their uniqueness.

This is how the government benefits from all citizens by forcing them to believe in what they need. The author use different literary tools and methods to suggest and express his point of view that the technology growth can be used as a powerful tool to control the entire society and suppress people under specific circumstances, and the utopian world that he created serves as a great example of this statement.