a guide to many atrocities throughout our world. The majority of the populace is sterile, in an effort to control what types of people are put to work. From 1935 up until 1976 nearly 60,000 Swedes were sterilized. All of these considered, "...inferior, flawed by bad eyesight, having mental retardation, or 'undesirable' racial characteristics."{Forced}. The government-enforced program began as a pursuit of eugenics, or a "movement to improve humanity by controlling genetic factors in reproduction"{Forced}. Most of these occurred during Nazi occupation, a time when many people were brainwashed by the German leader Adolf Hitler. Hitler, so obsessed with building up his Arian race had built a literal caste system with himself the Alpha male, and the minority Jews as worker Deltas. In The Communist Manifesto, Carl Marx attempts to create a utopia of happy, equal citizens, this will eventually backfire. Yet it gives Huxley a grand idea, that should everyone be happy, production would increase and corruption would fall. Not only does America reflect the ideas In Brave New World but Brave New World mirrors political ideas in the past. Yet political power usually creates unrest, so Huxley leaves people alone, to be happy, he uses science to hit them when they are most vulnerable, when they don't yet exist. Gregory Mendell, the father of genetics{Shreeve}, for all our genetic research in this day and age he should be our Ford, our messiah. One of the most prominent ideas regarding their reproduction methods has to be test-tube babies. Once again Huxley must have looked into a crystal ball to predict the actual fertilization and development of a human in a plastic tube. Yet once again we meet with the wall of moral obligations that must be fulfilled, plastic tube replaces mother, erotic play replaces moral instruction, and sleep teaching replaces school. A few years ago using fertility drugs a group of septuplets were born, to a fa...
