So I found the video to be pretty interesting in the sense that we as students are all exactly as the communitiy around us. If you think about that it is true. We all dress about the same, well within the same cliques or styles. We talk the same. We take the same educational classes. In a sense, we are the same. However, unlike Brave New World, we all are able to think for ourselves. Our sole purpose may be to contribute to the economy and live our lives out that way, however we have choices. We are not genetically programmed to fufill a certain machine's needs.
We do work, but we have the choce of when and where we work.
Other than this working as being somewhat of a parallel, the one parallel that was a "red flag" to my attention was the point in the video where he addressed the condition of ADHD and the fact that most people nowadays seem to have it. We as a society are constantly bored looking for the next thing to occupy our attention, whether it be technology, food, sports, or even on the harsh terms of drugs and alcohol. Likewise, in Brave New World, the people turn to Soma to relieve them from any boredom: "What you need is a gamme of Soma." Soma is the fix, the excitement in their manipulative world.
On another note, we are taught throughout school what is right and wrong through the eyes of the teacher. Isn't this too a parallel to Brave New World. They are taught what they can and canot do to fufill their life purpose. But who is really in charge of the right and wrong?
This video was indeed an eye opener of how society is slowly starting to resemble that of Bravc New World by our lack of concentration and our ability to easily be consumed by what is around us.
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