I just read a few things at wikipedia, and it seems like soma was an ancient drug, known as the drug of gods...and Huxley saw it, thinking: great, a drug for my new book!
Hm.
In origin times, soma was a drug which gave illusions to its consumers, and they celebrated a ceremony of...sacrifice people for some goddess or god.
its not clear how to produce soma, the drug in huxleys book is not quite the same, because it doesnt make illusions, it only removes your fears.
Humans producing humans...how perverted!
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Brave new World?
Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010
Consumption
Each human being in brave new world is nearly forced to get his or her soma every time he or doesnt feel well. I think, only the alpha guys are free to decide if they want to consume it.
The beta guys and the lower castes are conditioned to take it, they dont even think about it. If another clever alpha guy asks them (as Bernard Marx does sometimes) they only have a quotation from ther hypnopaedia lessons to explain why they consume it.
Another consume "products" are the partys they celebrate, knows as "orgy-porgy" and the sport for everyone.
Enough for some minutes :D
The beta guys and the lower castes are conditioned to take it, they dont even think about it. If another clever alpha guy asks them (as Bernard Marx does sometimes) they only have a quotation from ther hypnopaedia lessons to explain why they consume it.
Another consume "products" are the partys they celebrate, knows as "orgy-porgy" and the sport for everyone.
Enough for some minutes :D
Dienstag, 8. Juni 2010
Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010
Summa sumarum...(thank you Sina :D)
short overview i guess...
-humans are produced in "bottles"
-in their childhood, they become conditioned to their special cast
-the lower castes are not able to think correctly because of O² deficites
-each human is a proud member of his or her cast
-history exists from the moment Henry Ford was born (30.7.1863)
-each citizen of the brave new world is stimulated with the help of Soma (authentic drug)
-sexual feelings are wiped out, instincts are main factor
- if youre not alpha, you are not able to show real emotions(love, bis anger, sadness)
-reservations are the single places where children are born naturally
;D
-humans are produced in "bottles"
-in their childhood, they become conditioned to their special cast
-the lower castes are not able to think correctly because of O² deficites
-each human is a proud member of his or her cast
-history exists from the moment Henry Ford was born (30.7.1863)
-each citizen of the brave new world is stimulated with the help of Soma (authentic drug)
-sexual feelings are wiped out, instincts are main factor
- if youre not alpha, you are not able to show real emotions(love, bis anger, sadness)
-reservations are the single places where children are born naturally
;D
well, that book shows a world in which all humans are produced like the "model t" invented by Ford.As a symbol of Ford, they deleted all history and all books from the time before Ford (BF).
Also, they make a T-symbol(model T) instead of a + christian symbol...thats their religion.
Some humans are more intelligent than others, the more stupid ones didnt get as much O² in their breeding machines like the clever ones. The human beings with the most O² are the alpha + humans, each human is divided into another caste. We know about 5 castes, alpha, beta, gamma, delta and epsilon (each member of a cast feels lucky that he is in that cast....brainwashing, i say!)
Alpha + -
Beta + -
Gamma + -
and so on.
oh...brainwashing is nearly correct. while they are asleep, they are taught many things by "hypnopaedia", ...yes, invented by a polish boy in earlier times.
i wrote about the sentences and repititions, that hypnosis is the reason for "a gramme is better than a damn" and the other confusions. each boy and each girl is educated while he or she is sleeping, and nobody except the clever alpha guys knows this.
but where is the rest of the human population?
the normal ones?
they are allowed to live in some...outside camps like indians. the population of the "brave new world" didnt like them, they seem to be ugly and disgusting. because they have real children, they are the humans which are titulated as not normal.
Although, the word "parents" has the same meaning for the "modern world" like ... (need an embarassing word) in ours. Each child, hearing the p-word, is red in the next second.
Also, they make a T-symbol(model T) instead of a + christian symbol...thats their religion.
Some humans are more intelligent than others, the more stupid ones didnt get as much O² in their breeding machines like the clever ones. The human beings with the most O² are the alpha + humans, each human is divided into another caste. We know about 5 castes, alpha, beta, gamma, delta and epsilon (each member of a cast feels lucky that he is in that cast....brainwashing, i say!)
Alpha + -
Beta + -
Gamma + -
and so on.
oh...brainwashing is nearly correct. while they are asleep, they are taught many things by "hypnopaedia", ...yes, invented by a polish boy in earlier times.
i wrote about the sentences and repititions, that hypnosis is the reason for "a gramme is better than a damn" and the other confusions. each boy and each girl is educated while he or she is sleeping, and nobody except the clever alpha guys knows this.
but where is the rest of the human population?
the normal ones?
they are allowed to live in some...outside camps like indians. the population of the "brave new world" didnt like them, they seem to be ugly and disgusting. because they have real children, they are the humans which are titulated as not normal.
Although, the word "parents" has the same meaning for the "modern world" like ... (need an embarassing word) in ours. Each child, hearing the p-word, is red in the next second.
Reading Log
I read the whole book on my way to germany, the final part on the way back to belgium.
My thoughts about the book...its completely incredible, i would never accept a life style like that. The persons which seemed to be normal were often annoyed by the soma-specialists, and the repetitions made me nervous, too.
A gramme is better than a damn, may be, but its enough if they´d said it only once....
Furthermore, i think that the games, played by the young children, shall be stopped even in that book..thats not normal :o
I couldnt live in such a world where everybody is created as his neighbour...there would be no fun, would it?
I read the whole book on my way to germany, the final part on the way back to belgium.
My thoughts about the book...its completely incredible, i would never accept a life style like that. The persons which seemed to be normal were often annoyed by the soma-specialists, and the repetitions made me nervous, too.
A gramme is better than a damn, may be, but its enough if they´d said it only once....
Furthermore, i think that the games, played by the young children, shall be stopped even in that book..thats not normal :o
I couldnt live in such a world where everybody is created as his neighbour...there would be no fun, would it?
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