Ed Bandemer
Essay
Our World or Brave New World?
It all happened to me when I was getting dressed in the locker room one day for hockey. The coach wasn't there on time, so a few of the guys started to clown around in the locker room. I mean I didn't care but, one pulled out a cigar and the other a bottle of vodka. Since, the coach wasn't there they wanted to get high or drunk before practice to make it more fun they explained. One of them finally asked me to take a hit of that stoogie and the other to take a swig of that drink. See in our world there are consequences for our actions when drugs and alcohol are involved, but in the Brave New World there isn't. Their world has no peer pressure or consequences because everyone is doing it. Our world is like being a hockey player with a coach, you have to do what they say or else you will pay.
Brave New World
Brave New World (song)
Brave New World (Styx album)In the Brave New World one can do drugs and drink, have sex, and have a direct purpose to their life.
In the Brave New World there are a lot of drugs that are being used. Their drugs were called soma. Soma was the drug that made your mind clear just like some drugs today. Unlike today's drugs, in the Brave New World there was no punishment for using them. If one was feeling down or just wanted to have some fun one would some soma.
With everyone getting "high" or "stoned" as some people would say. Usually when one used this drug one would have sex. In the book it tells the readers about how there was an "orgy-porgy". It had a little rhyme to it to "Orgy-Porgy, Ford...
I think not.
Just imagine, you are a class epsilon, you are short, not that great looking, you work all day long in the boring factory, you hate the things you take for granted now, you hate the beach, you hate the night sky, the sunshine and you can't even play hockey. You will never love, you will never be loved, you never know who your parents are, no one cares about you're wellbeing. You are only happy because you are on Soma, everytime you are depressed, everytime you see something you take for granted today, you take abit more, digging yourself into a hole that you can't escape from, that you never even knew you were in. You like stability don't you? Stability in the "Brave New World" means doing whatever the 'World Leaders' programme you to do. Instead of a Coach telling you what to on field, there is someone telling you what to do every day, every hour, every minute, every second of your entire life.
What a life, what a world.
I think not.
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