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Science and Technology in Brave New World


" As a result of this genetic breeding, there are, of course, no family structures or relationships. Instead, human beings are raised in conditioning centers. Children raised without parents in this way will be unaffectionate and unable to have real emotions or truly love. Another threat posed by the Bokanovsky process is that life is not highly valued anymore. The value has been lost because human life can be substituted easily. "Murder kills only the individual and, after all, what is an individual? With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. We can make a new one with the greatest ease- as many as we like." Furthermore, Bokanovsky's mass production method prevents individuality, since all people are cloned. Starting from the time of decanting, each cloned embryo is genetically altered to grow up as a member of the various social classes. Within each of these classes, all members are intellectually and physically equivalent. .
             In "Brave New World" one's intelligence is adjusted by the amount of alcohol injected into the embryo. For example, one of the lower classes, the Epsilons, have a high amount of alcohol injected in their embryo. Another important factor is the deprivation of oxygen. The lower the caste, the less oxygen they are given. This is what directly influences mental abilities by reducing brain capacity. Mental faculty, therefore, is predestined from the moment of cloning. "Brave New World" shows us that advances in biology and mass production of human beings without regard to the well-being of the human race are extremely dangerous. Here we see that stability is only possible in the absence of individuality. This is also understood, of course, by the government in "Brave New World": "[there is] no civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.


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