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Could it happen?

I think that any of the scenarios we were presented in class could happen, and that's scary. These different strange worlds could one day become reality, they could even be mashed together some how. Thinking about the future is some what depressing while exciting at the same time. We may have a scary text book future or maybe there will be things that no one has thought of. What ever happens I just hope that it is a future environment that i want myself and future family to life happy lives. I don't want the environment to end up destroyed like in "Feed" and i dont want all of the violence that occurs in "A Clockwork Orange" and i certainly dont want our lives to be so structured that we can do nothing unless programed to do so in "Brave New World." I Just hope that we all remain happy and stable and everything goes good!

Post 8

Beware, having and using are two different words. We have to power to better ourselves in this world, but are we using it. I personally think that i am doing the best i can to better myself while still enjoying life. I have a family, friends, the greatest friend of all. I am happy. Yes, I have a computer, yes i get distracted from doing my school work sometimes. But i am enjoying the life I have been given as well as making the most of it. If there is no happiness, there is no life. No hope of making something better for yourself or your future family. I have the right and willingness to live my life to the fullest and I think I am doing a heck of a good job of it. I the book they have no hope of change, they have no hope of bettering their lives. They have drugs to make them happy. They may not know that they could better themselves, but it is wrong to keep that from them. It is wrong to manufacture humans and take away their rights as human beings. We, unlike the characters in the book, have the ability to change and make better for our selves, and we use that ability to the best that we can while still finding happiness in this world. And that's that.

Post 7

A Brave New World, what a brave new world. I think it should be called a new world but brave not so much. It is a place where there is no individualism. No personal identity. No room for new thoughts and ideas. If you don't agree with the government rules, and try to right them you get exiled. You cannot voice your opinion because you are programed not to have one. What kind of world is that? Who would come up with such a crazy thing? Why is that good. Yes, it gives the society stability. But it takes away freedoms and rights of all who live there. You are unable to do anything you want. You can't have a family. Mothering a child is shunned. You cannot have emotions. It sounds like a group of robots. Which is basically what they are. They are programed and trained and made in to monsters. I think that a society isn't a society if there is no free will. Where is the fun in the "ideal" society. There is no room for changes and reform. No one can be extraordinary. Every one is the same, if you are in the same class and that just isn't right. Not one bit.