The Big Argument
Brave New World
Alia Hussain
To me, the big argument that Aldous Huxley presented in Brave New World was that we, as humans, are controlled by certain people. These certain people are often the heads of major companies in very influential industries. We all have an idea in our mind of what is socially acceptable and appealing, but how many of us have truly thought about it and decided for ourselves? We have a certain kind of mindset about certain things because that is what we have been taught throughout the years. Even if people think that what they think about anything really is their own idea, chances are they are wrong. We have had these ideas of beauty, technology, education planted into our minds- seed by seed- generation by generation- so it is hard to tell when we are or are not thinking for ourselves. I feel that Huxley was trying to say that we do what we are told and do not ask questions. We all go to school to get the same kinds of jobs, to get a similar life to each other, and most of us do not choose what path we would like to go down. We are told what to think and usually do not sought out our own answers. This gives other people power of us because in a way we oblige to their orders. I believe that many of us live empty, rather materialistic and meaningless lives because we just follow the crowd. I think that Huxley was trying to say that there is more to life than all this mediocre stuff we have going on, but we compromise our values, morals and believes and just ‘take our happy pills’ doing what