Brave New World by Huxley and Future Predictions Essay -- Brave New Wo

unafraid(p) New World by Huxley and Future PredictionsDue to the Enlightenment belief in understanding through science and the scientific innovations of the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe and America, the nonion that society could be vastly alter through scientific progress pervaded western culture. Naturally, these advances were expected to culminate in the 20th Century. However, the shear brutality and scale of World War I and the despondency of the world economic depression of the 1930s destroyed prior expectations and new socio-economic and political movements emerged, such as Social Darwinism, Eugenics, Marxism, Fascism, Nazism, Fordism (which encompasses both mass-production and mass-consumption), etc. In his story A Brave New World, Alduous Huxley incorporates various negative aspects of these movements into a morbid prediction about the future of industrialized society. Moreover, considering the parallels between some of the aspects of Huxleys Utopian society and those of contemporary, industrialized, consumer society, A Brave New World is frighteningly prophetic. The starkest parallel between Huxleys utopia and modern industrialized society is the absence of religion. In the novel, sight worshipped Henry Ford as the new God and all traces of prior religions were completely obliterated. Hence, crucifixes were cut into Ts to represent Fords model T, the Charing-T Tower lifted towards the sky (Hux 61). Additionally, Bibles, Korans, and other holy books were banned in Huxleys utopia and simple colloquialisms involving God were replaced with Ford, Thank Ford He was not the last (79). Coincidentally, leaders in many modern industrialized societies have... ...2.) A.R.I.S.= the American Religious Identification Survey, directed by Dr. Ariela Keysar of New York City University.Works CitedArab man Development Report 2002. New York, NY United Nations DevelopmentProgramme Arab Fund for Economic And Social Develo pment. 2002.Better Ways. Economist. 28 July. 2001 p. 61.Bible, the. King James Version.Huxley, Alduous. A Brave New World. New York, NY HarperCollins Publisher, Inc.1932.Kimmelman, Michael. Beauty? Brains? Place Your Orders. New York Times. 16 Feb.2001 E33.National Center for Health Statistics. 14 April. 2003. divorce.html.National Vital Statistics Report. Vol. 50, Num. 5. 14 April. 2003. nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_05.pdf.Stumbling in the dark. Economist. 28 July. 2001. p.51.Top Twenty Religions in the United States, 2001. Adherents.Com. 14 April. 2003.