Neil Postman's Assertions Analysis
Postman’s Assertions The social critic, Neil Postman, created six assertions he believed supported Huxley’s visions in, Brave New World. Out of the six, the three most relevant ones regarded the fear of the truth being drowned in a sea of irrelevance, a trivial culture preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and centrifugal bumblepuppy, and the loving of technology in order to make us think less. What these three assertions all seem to have in common is that they are all linked to egoism. They prove that the citizens of the World State rather remain in their comfort zones in order to avoid being interrupted from their happy world beliefs. Like, the assertion that mentioned the truth being drowned in a sea of irrelevance,
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This also goes along with the theme of egoism because the citizens rather work less in order to remain happy, and not become worn out. The assertion can be proved by quote where the D.H.C talks about the process of how technology can now produce life, "These," he waved his hand, "are the incubators." And opening an insulated door he showed them racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes. "The week's supply of ova. Kept," he explained, "at blood heat; whereas the male gametes," and here he opened another door, "they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven. Full blood heat sterilizes." (Chapter 1) This next quote is only a representation of the caste system the technology of the World State has developed, “Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse.” (Chapter 2) As a result, they now have a system that can control population and intelligence. The government needs a system where everything can be at equilibrium so that they don’t have to worry about the shifts that occur. They now know that there will never be a shortness of workers for a certain job, because it’s not popular or because the workers are unproductive. The World State has used their advanced technology to develop a system that will always have what they need and need to be able to do right away. With this equilibrium, the government and its people can be happy and not have to deal with any of these problems in the future. The real world has also developed technology that’s capable of allowing us to think less. We have the Internet, machines that can build for us
This also goes along with the theme of egoism because the citizens rather work less in order to remain happy, and not become worn out. The assertion can be proved by quote where the D.H.C talks about the process of how technology can now produce life, "These," he waved his hand, "are the incubators." And opening an insulated door he showed them racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes. "The week's supply of ova. Kept," he explained, "at blood heat; whereas the male gametes," and here he opened another door, "they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven. Full blood heat sterilizes." (Chapter 1) This next quote is only a representation of the caste system the technology of the World State has developed, “Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse.” (Chapter 2) As a result, they now have a system that can control population and intelligence. The government needs a system where everything can be at equilibrium so that they don’t have to worry about the shifts that occur. They now know that there will never be a shortness of workers for a certain job, because it’s not popular or because the workers are unproductive. The World State has used their advanced technology to develop a system that will always have what they need and need to be able to do right away. With this equilibrium, the government and its people can be happy and not have to deal with any of these problems in the future. The real world has also developed technology that’s capable of allowing us to think less. We have the Internet, machines that can build for us