The book I read was Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ... He is brought back to the civilized world by Bernard to embarrass the director. ... Bernard gets permission to take back John and Linda to the world state. ... The world controller tells them that Bernard and Helmholtz will be exiled. ... Soon reporters start coming and then people start coming after the feely. ...
The use of technology to control society in Brave New World warns of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies. ... Soma is a third example of the kind of medical, biological, and psychological technologies that Brave New World criticizes most sharply. ... The government of Brave New World retains control by making its citizens so happy and superficially fulfilled that they don't care about their personal freedom. In Brave New World the consequences of state control are a loss of dignity, morals, values, and emotions "in short, a loss of humanity. Bu...
