ISU Blog Post

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley depicts an ideal world in which the society is fully empowered by technology and leadership. In the beginning of the novel, the reader learns about three words "Community, Identity, Stability" that comprise the slogan for the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. In today's world, "community" is understood as a group of different people, however in World State, people are essentially produced and are sorted into one of the five social castes. The modern reader understands "identity" as one's individuality and distinctiveness, while in World State, the caste system prevents anything by uniformity which in short means that stability of the community is basically achieved at the expense of humanity. Even though, the World State is fully controlled, one can argue that is it anything but stable. It is impossible to achieve stability in the society, if in individuals do not have nay their rights and are not allowed to develop their own unique identities. In such world, individuality is useless and uniformity is bliss, because social stability is everything.