Technology within our lives
...s for days. It seems like the drugs in our real world. But I will say that ‘soma’ is also a drug in the Brave New World too. The only difference is that ‘soma’ has no side effects. Just like drug people gets addicted of it. But without the side effects ‘soma’ is wonderful. Think about it if this really exist in the real world? I will say if this exists in the real world. Everything will stop. Everyone will be on it. The economics’ will stop the consuming of products will stop because people would even need stuff like that. Why to out and buy thing that use up money when you can buy ‘soma’ with that money and become happier than you are now. How did this work in the book than? What made the people in the book stop taking ‘soma’ every time? I will say that the technology prevented it. The conditioning that the people had when they were young will be the thing that prevented the over use of ‘soma’. In our real world, we know that drugs have a horrible side effect that this knowledge prevents us of using it. But ‘soma’ does not have any. The only thing that is possible is that the conditioning make them stop to use it. They are already happy by the conditioning they have. ‘Soma’ to them is only an extra thing to themselves. I think that the technology that made the conditioning plays the major role of making people happy. The ‘soma’ is only a by-product of it. There is another quote that says “your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha.” (BNW 74) By the conditioning you got changes your thinking. In this book people are classified by Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. If you are an Epsilon you would think that you are happy that you are not an Alpha or a Beta. On the other way around the Alpha’s and Beta’s will think the some. It is the conditioning that keeps everyone happy. The technology keeps the people controlled and happy. In out real world there are many things that make us happy. Every technology has it own unique way to make us forget our unpleasant thoughts. The internet, the music devices we have, the TV we watch in a way that is technology that helps us to forget whatever that bothers us. In my case I hear music when I am upset. I just try to cut off the world and just have a time for me. That seems similar to ‘soma’ to me. The real issue here is why I hear music when I am upset. People all around the world would have some thing or some kind of stuff that will deal with there unhappy thoughts. But how do we find the things like these kinds. Just like the book we convinces our selves that we use what so ever that makes us happy, in my case listening...