Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
             Aldous Huxley writes of a world set in around 2535AD – over 500 years from now. The world is so inhumane and malicious in the way that people are brought up to not have feelings. Humans are not born and raised; they are instead designed and bred in factories for certain government assist. If Aldous did not mention it, you would not have imagined that this book was written about people on our planet, Earth; a world where famous and successful companies are seen as the closest thing to God - if God was permitted to be believed. The people on Earth have adopted the concept of giving up religion, high art, true science, love, family and other fundamentals of modern-day life. Children have been taught not to be sad, to love artificial happiness and to be totally against violence, which can effortlessly produce an unstable civilization. Will humans eventually begin to act similar to this?
             This brings me to my essay question:
             Is it inevitable that humans are going to act the way they do in Brave New World?
             The book seems meticulously well thought about and written for someone to make certain doubts about whether any points mentioned within the book are false. There may be some small alterations to the future compared to Brave New World - for instance: location, company name (small things like that). I think that we as a race are essentially heading for what Huxley describes in his book, maybe even sooner than he expected. Some quotes I would change is the 'people must give up religion' statement John makes in the book - during the next period of a couple of hundred years people hopefully won't be so stupid and scientifically uneducated to know that all religious stories and beliefs are wrong, apart from the common sense quotes they shape. With religion gone, there will be no need for controversy with cloning. It will start with a 'experiment' human clone, then
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