Brave New World- Would we want it? Do we have it?

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Brave New World- Would we want it? Do we have it?

Brave New World's society is very different to our own for instance. People are made in bottles and conditioned to do predestined work. People have no family, marriage doesn't exist, and only casual relationships are permitted. People are taught to serve the higher castes, to reach the state's motto: "Community, Identity and Stability". People also are made in different grades of intelligence called castes.

A typical child in Brave New World is grown on racks, (these racks can consist of thousands upon thousands of embryos because of the Bokanovsky's process; which is a process which can separate a single egg and grow up to ninety-six twins.) There they are put under different surroundings for instance they are deprived of oxygen so they aren't capable of reaching a high intelligence. One instance of this early stage of conditioning is when an embryo is still in its test tube it is turned upside down so it gets used to being the wrong way up. This embryo will later in its life become a rocket engineer.

Later in the embryo's life once it has become a young child it