"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Compares life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today.

Prompt: Compare life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today.         For more than half a century, science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. A society can achieve stability only when everyone is happy, and the brave new world …

…war or poverty, little disease or social unrest. But Huxley keeps asking, what does society have to pay for these benefits? The price, he makes clear, is high. You basically in turn sacrifice any ounce of a 'life' you can have. Everything is so perfect you cannot have fun, cannot do things different from other people to make you unique. Everyone is conditioned to make everything run smoothly, but is that really an ideal society?