Making Strides in Utopia’s Shoes

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley depicts a utopian community with a futuristic society developed through genetic engineering, and controlled by neural conditioning with mind-altering drugs and a manipulative media system. The extremes that Huxley’s society demonstrates seem profound and ridiculous upon reading and many Americans could not ever imagine living like that. However, in reality, modern American society may not be quite as far off as some would like to think. Perhaps, the …

…until they begin to follow in utopia’s footsteps, but then again, maybe not? Who’s to say? Although the word utopia has become synonymous with what the perfect world should be, Huxley’s utopia is the utopian society to the extreme. American society should take a close look and the complications and downsides a world like Huxley’s utopia creates and hopefully learn from to correct some mistakes they could make in the future.