First off, this author is weird. I mean sure, with all of the medical advances being made in the world today things tend to get a little wacky. But controlling human reproduction and raising of children by the govt? Its just a little to messed up for me.
Do people really go around thinking up of weird scenarios to write books about how effed up the future could possibly be?
The critique is something that you really have to look carefully at. The author is showing the dangers of what could happen when humanity gets caught up in the notion of perfection. The funky part is that this notion of perfection is clouded by the idea proposed by inherent disabilities. The alpha are "bred" to be the elite, and to know that they are elite. Walking around with a swagger because they have the knowledge of being the ruling class.
What I do not understand is why the author decided to go beyond just having an alpha and beta class. The five class institution seems to be excessive and not necessary to the brave new world.
The fascist system of control is used to knock down the current attitude of using scientific advances to their fullest. The author warns that science may have a much larger impact on the scheme of human life than you may expect, and in the end could end up controlling our lives.
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