Although this method of creating people seems too unnatural, far-fetched and even irrelevant to today's society, it isn't.Ĭurrently we have many "unnatural" means of fertilization such as In Vitro and artificial insemination. Upon being "decanted" - the equivalent of our word "born" - he goes through the appropriate series of hypnopaedic and experimental conditioning that feeds and creates his personality he never gets the chance to choose his own path he is conditioned from his birth until his death. In this bottle, they are conditioned through the appropriate dosage of oxygen, alcohol and other substances to become whatever society needs them to be. The life of a World State citizen begins in a bottle. Although Orwell's future is more lauded today, Huxley's vision in Brave New World is more relevant - almost too relevant - leaning more towards eerie than just coincidental. Connection to Orwell's 1984 can be made: surveillance cameras, Internet databases, microchip implants and other technologies can clearly be seen as a manifestation of Big Brother, and Room 101 can be tied to both torture or even more simply to interrogations. Both Huxley and Orwell present surprisingly accurate, if not, interesting predictions about the future of society.
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