compare society w/ Brave New W

             What society should learn from the book, Brave New World is that discrimination is
             experienced by just about everyone in one form or another. That life could be much
             better for everyone if we could look past differences and work together to achieve a
             society in which everyone is content. In the Brave New World there is a vision of Utopia
             among the people. They are conditioned to be happy and content in their positions in
             society. Jealousy, racism and sexism are not issues.
             Today's society is full of hatred, racism, sexism and classism. People judge
             others based on appearance or social class. If we could somehow focus on the goal of
             happiness and help and use others to obtain this perhaps reachable goal. Happiness has
             been and always will be a controversial goal. True happiness as far as I see it is
             unobtainable. No matter what advances we make, there is always cravings for more. We
             see this in the book with Bernard who received praise from just about everyone in society
             for discovering and bringing back the savage. His new found lifestyle goes straight to his
             head and he begins to converse with high society controllers and directors, which he
             never could before. He dives head first into the lifestyle which he used to dispise.
             Having different girls every other night, using them like "meat", which he criticized the
             other men of doing to Lenina. Eventually it all caught up to him and he fell d0own hard.
             In the book they were able to achieve a society, well on paper, where everyone
             was content. Due to there conditioning, they had no worries. The lower caste society
             knew of no better life. They were happy and the higher caste societies were happy
             because they were more educated and well respected by the lower classes. If ever they
             became depressed or angry or just bored, there was Soma, the perfect drug.
             All of this was achieved because after a major war cal...

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