What Is Controversial In Brave New World

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In Brave New World there are a plethora of topics that are considered controversial in our modern day society. Most of these topics of which we would perceive as taboo. We would see them as awful, hideous crimes. But the thing in this book that stands out the most, is that they are all okay and fine with the conditioning that everyone is put through. In this book, the people are subject to thousands of different ways to condition them to society. Whether this is based off of there standing in the society, or even the jobs that they are performing. Every single person is conditioned, and they are all expected to think exactly like their fellow caste members. Before the people of this world are even born, they are already being put through

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