Dystopian Journal #1- Brave New World

The biggest motif I have discovered so far is this idea of massiveness and newness. Making masses amount of people from one ovary, the massive consumption, the massive amount of sex people have. Along with this massiveness is newness. People always want to have new things, they die fairly early (by US standards) and overall this leads into this consumerist society. I think that this key to understanding the World State and the way it ends up viewing morality- whatever is new and massive is best. This can ad up to the idea of how disposable life itself is in this culture. That life isn't value the way that we perceive it to be valued in our culture. This idea that life is also about maximizing pleasure in the grotesque way is disgusting to me as well because of how in this pursuit people de-sensitize and sanitize the society by making it unclean with these strange practices of consumption and pleasure.

This setting is very interesting in the way that this new world reproduces and therefore affects the rest of society. By introducing reproduction in a sense that this is horrible outside of this futuristic AI system and by removing pregnancy from pleasure, there is this quite disturbing way that sex is perceived in the society. Even having little kids get ready to have sex at such a young age can be kind of revolting and shows how close within our nature because those reading the book have such a strong tie to sex being linked to pregnancy and a part of our morality... it's kind of gross to read. Also, the way that classes are reveled almost seems as if society has progressed backwards and yet forwards. Yes, for the upper caste there is improvement, but for the lower classes it seems as if it doesn't matter what happens to them. And yet, we have supposedly reached this lovely utopia?

The language of the book is almost charmingly twisted because of its British tone. The way that people passively talk about children's sexual play, the reproduction processes, how people are classed into the caste system, all sounds lovely when they are speaking. However, there is this apparent and frightening undertone of how scary this would actually be to have this be real in the world. This cavalier way of talking of such subjects helps show how they have truly lost emotions outwardly, but then again still live with shame if people do have children/ live outside of the WS's idea of living.