Those in control of HuxleyÆs society wish to remain in control of all aspects of human functioning, including elimination of free will, disease, aging, and even sexuality. Overpopulation has led to government efforts to control reproduction. In commenting on this condition and methods of control of the individual and human functioning, Huxley maintains that our own era is quite similar, ôthere are nowhere any religious traditions in favor of unrestricted death, whereas religious and social traditions in favor of unrestricted reproduction are widespreadàIt is against this grim background that all the political, economic, cultural and psychological dramas of our time are being played out,ö (Alleger, 1998, p. 125).

TodayÆs population problems have led to government control of reproduction, like ChinaÆs one-child policy, but in the U.S. reproduction is primarily restricted to the debate on abortion and womenÆs choice still. If technological engineering by the government in Brave New World to control emotion, will, and reproduction seem far fetched, one need only thing of recent advances in genetics technologies and the ability to clone animal species. As William Galston (2002, p. 103) asserts, ôAldous HuxleyÆs Brave New World is more timely than ever. The genetic revolution of the past s

everal decades has apparently given us the ability to transform the human species itself.ö The danger is not in the potential positive uses of such technologies, but in their potential dangerous use by controlling groups in society against those deemed as ôundesirable,ö like those who refuses to follow the norms in Brave New World.

Alleger, I. (1998, Feb/Mar). Brave New World revisited. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, 175(76), 125-126.

Galston, W. A. (2002, Fall). WhatÆs at stake in biotech? Public Interest, 149, 103-107.

In Brave New World, we also see that the inhabitants live in a class stratified society, one in which they are assigned based on the governmentÆs belief of suitability. Such individuals, due to genetic engineering methods, lose their free will and do not raise