Brave New World

Introduction

In his dystopian novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley outlined a totalitarian world government, which ensures "commonality, consistency, consistency" through artificial breeding, conditioning and indoctrination. There is peace, the company works, but the price is the lack of freedom and culture. In the foreword writes Aldous Huxley (Huxley, pp.12-34).

There is of course no reason why the new totalitarianism was the same old. A governance using truncheons and firing squads, by artificial famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation is not only inhumane (give a damn nowadays nobody much), it is provable incapacitated - and in an age of advanced technology is inefficiency sin against the Holy Spirit. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political rulers and their army of managers control a population of forced labor, which need not be forced because they love their servitude. Teach them the love of it is, in the present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers assigned task, but their methods are still crude and unscientific.

"Brave New World" has parallels with a written around 370 BC utopia: "Politeia". Plato's Republic is led by philosophers. Mustafa Mannesmann, one of the ten World directorships in Huxley's novel is indeed a physicist, but can certainly be regarded as a philosopher. The five boxes in the "Brave New World", the three items in the "Politeia": regent, guards, artisans and farmers. Plato thought not yet to test-tube babies and conditioning, but in the society described by him, the children are also taught not by parents, but in state institutions.

Racism in Brave New World

Racism is the belief in the superiority of a human group in the Brave new World. It is defined as a race; this group is superior to all others. Racism is a hatred of such groups. In common parlance, the term "racism" refers most often to the xenophobia that is the most obvious manifestation. Historically, the concept of racism is: this is not a new idea. However, the word racism has entered the Oxford Dictionary in 1930.

In fact, the Egyptians were opposed to those who do not speak their language. The Romans, felt superior to their neighbors because their sole purpose was to invade their territories. The Chinese of that time, they have questioned the degree of understanding browsers that reached their territories, and began to "compare" between peoples (Huxley, & Aldous, pp.41-43).

In the sixteenth century, the Spanish established colonial racism. They compared the indigenous animals, because they were not wearing clothes, lifted heavy loads, painted their bodies and do not speak the same language as their own. Then the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French followed the Spanish example: They forced them to serve, while abusing them.

In 1865, slavery was abolished in the United States, but in 1875, born in several American states laws requiring the separation between races, in public places, advocating discrimination, prohibiting intermarriage. From the nineteenth century, one sees the Ku Klux Klan (Huxley, ...