Social Stability Brave New World

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Imagine living in a world with no freedom, support, or your own beliefs/opinions. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley writes about the World State, where they pay this price to have social stability. To me, social stability means having people in our society who are mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially in a good place, everyone is safe and doing well. Price to me means freedom, that’s something we all value and we wouldn’t want someone to control us. I agree that there are things that could be done to have social stability. But I also disagree with the World State giving up real feelings and emotional attachments to others, their freedom to plan out their future, and giving up their own opinions/beliefs just to have a …show more content…

In our world, that isn’t the case and people wouldn’t give up their freedom to plan out their future to a stable society. Everyone in our world has different life goals and wants to achieve different things, although we are born into a social class, we can also move up the social ladder or we could move down. In our society, everyone is different in one way or another, and with everyone being different, they have different goals in life. On “BYJU’s” it says “people have different developmental goals because different people have different desires, the life situation differs from each other, people come from diverse backgrounds, different people have different dreams and aspirations, the economic, social and cultural needs of every person changes accordingly” (BYJU’s). This shows that everyone is different and everyone has their own things that interfere with what their future might look like or how they plan out to be. In the World State, at a young age, kids are conditioned to know what their future is going to be like depending on which social class they are born into. “We also predestine and

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