The outline of the dystopia represented in this book continued

The dystopia in the book is that the humans are bred to not notice how tedious and un-purposeful their lives really are. Everyone is happy, but nobody knows how to be unhappy. People, from birth, are basically given perimeters from which their minds cannot go, giving the illusion of freedom of thought without actually having that freedom. Every daily challenge is removed, so they are in no danger- the dystopia is represented in one of the most subversive and inconspicuous ways. People also are completely apathetic to death, and also to other people as humans, instead seeing them as bags of meat.

The social injustices the author is trying to describe is that the government has basically created extremes: they have taken away the most basic right to free thought, which is probably one of the most basic rights available to humans. With something so terrible though, you would expect is to be a terrible place. But everyone, of every class, is content. In a strange, perverse, and subversive way, the dystopia of this book actually makes it a utopia of sorts. But in the views of us, the readers, who are born with free minds, it appears as a dystopia. It all depends on what side you look at it from.


The injustices in today's world in comparison to the book are quite null, but there are still a few gleams of warming you can pick up. We do not engineer babies, but often babies are influenced at birth, when they are most susceptible to "brainwashing" if you'll call it that, taught to believe in a religion, belief, or principle that the person would not otherwise believe. This is the injustice of taking away freedom to be an individual is the atrocity that the dystopia is representing. Another injustice is the addictive use of some, which is alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs rolled into one. Modern societies biggest problem is compulsive drug over-use, and in the book, it is also one of the bigger problems (after making humans in factories.)




The author's message is the evil, or possibly the good, but most likely evil, of "conditioning" or influencing babies almost against their future will, or bending them to your point of view, is evil and unethical. Where children are bred by watching violent movies and given drugs, then told to kill their parents or other people who do not surrender is, in my opinion, pure evil. The ironic thing is that John the "Savage"  is actually more civilized than the majority of the population.