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Book Summary - Brave New World

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Even though Brave New World is vague, disturbing, and has a very miserable end, it has constantly struck me how a work of literature written for the past eight decades is amazingly accurate and prophetic. It is amazing how even a story written in 1931, in which the author imagines a future society of people who love large scale manufacturing, in which the people in that society consider the words "mother", “family”, “father”, or even “pregnant” corrupting and a “disgusting, dirty word”, lead lives of unforbidden sex, and using medications or drugs to discard the negative feelings, such as depression, bitterness, or guiltiness. It predicts the future with unbelievable precision of the downfall of the family through regenerative innovations, the obsession of “engaging” with the other sex and with as much person without ever feeling the guilt and considering it as a moral doing in the society and is much encouraged, the use of social media and institutes to “brainwash” every person or child to what is the right or wrong and what to do and not to do, the use of technology to massively reproduce “human beings” and even clone them without the need of human reproduction. The story surprisingly offers no resolution to the “inhumane perfect society”, it is not even improved neither changed. The main character have not even convinced the society’s culture or norms to change. It has a miserable and lonely ending, which is also most of the endings are like that just like Christ. I see this story, as an eye-opener and somewhat a wakeup call for the Christians at present which is immersed in the “mass-producing” and “technologically advance” societies with issues growing bigger and are accepted by individuals more, to do what the author did not do and what the story’s resolution is missing: telling the message of the true satisfaction, happiness and freedom that can only be found in Christ our Savior. Th

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