Brave New World Discussion 1

1.       Instances of technology for control and immoral actions— used real eggs and break it up into billions of pieces and make it into many identical embryos.

2.       Instances of class conditioning—conditioning the lower class babies by coming close to them with books then performing electric shock.

3.       Absolute state -- parasite

4.       Explain social hierarchies – Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon;  Alpha—taught to be sexually promiscuous, top breed; Beta—told they don’t have to work as hard as Alpha’s and Beta’s are smarter than Delta’s, Gamma’s and Epsilon; Gamma, Delta, Epsilon—taught not to like different things to enhance consumerism.

5.       Explain genetics/social conditioning – Bokanosky Process; Alpha & Beta can reproduce as much as would like, genetically cloned in bottle, has heat training for people who will work in tropical enviroments, some exposed to chemicals for those who will work in chemical factories.

1. Instances of Technology for complete control and immoral actions a. Podsnap’s technique was being used to create hundreds of related individuals and to speed up the ripening processes of the eggs. This allowed them to create all of these individuals the same in every way.
 2. Instances of class conditioning a. They use hypnopaedia to whisper to each child their class level and what is expected of them. For example: the Beta’s are told that they don’t have to work as hard as the Alpha’s, but they are smarter than the lower classes.
 3. Absolute state a. The World State is a dictatorship who thrives on the motto, “Community, Identity, Stability.” They use the cloning process in order to not allow for anyone to feel like an individual. They also got rid of any books made before A.F. in order to not give anybody any other ideas than what they have implanted in their minds.
4. Explain social hierarchies a. The 3 lower classes Gamma, Delta, and Epison are created as weaker embryos in order to be predestined to perform identical tasks as if they are machines. They are not allowed to mingle with the higher classes, Alpha and Beta. Alpha is the smartest caste who has to work harder, and Beta is just beneath them, but they do interact.
 5. Explain genetic/social conditioning a. They exposed the fetuses of the 3 lower classes to alcohol and oxygen deprivation in order to make them smaller. They exposed the fetuses to hot climates in order to prepare them to work in tropical environments. b. Socially they create the different castes to accept and love their jobs. Train them to only be able to do a certain and job and they can’t perform any other job.

1.   Technology for control and immoral actions:

a.      Process of breeding outside of a human being

b.      Use of  X-rays and external factors to condition during embryo maturation

c.       Using hypnopedia to educate children while they are sleeping

2.      Instances of Classical Conditioning

a.      The use of hot and cold and x-rays used during embryo maturation

b.      Loud sounds used to scare children away from books and flowers

c.       Hypnopedia

3.      Absolute State

a.      Use the Bogonoski process to engineer all individual in society

4.      Explain social hierarchy’s

a.      Alpha, Beta, Gama, Delta, Episolom

b.      The government creates children stragically to fit into certain classes and conditions them once they are born to stay in that certain class

c.       Alpha is the highest of all classes, Beta are not as smart as Alpha but are still considered high class

d.      Gama, Delta, Episolom are considered the lower classes

5.      Explain Genetic/Social Conditioning

a.      Genetic conditioning is gone while the child is still an embryo. They go through a process of cloning and separating a matured egg to create many children that are the same and belong to the same class.

b.      Social conditioning is done after birth and ensures the child says in their certain class. This is done through installing fear for things that the certain class shouldn’t be involved in.