please explain how listening/watching the author himself changed your perspective on the work and the essay you turned in.
Well upon first reading Brave New World, I thought of John the savage more like our society now, where we read, we learn, we practice religion, we aren't made in hatcheries, no castes, no conditioning and so on and so forth. I found us to be the opposite of world state, since we aren't ruled under one, but after the interview I question if we were more like World State's beliefs than John the savage's beliefs.Aldous Huxley brings up technology, overpopulation, and drugs, which are for the most part present in World state. He predicts the world with these things ill come to world state.
Overpopulation would diminish out our resources until it would create, new classes just as castes. The higher Castes would be able to obtain what is needed, and lower ones would be left to fend. Only problem is would the lower castes comply to this new world state after having the freedom? That aspect I found harder to believe within the book, but with the presence of conditioning that could alter that.
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