Is a machine run world.

The Controversy lives. I would say if asked my thoughts on "Brave New World", the controversy lives as it  did in 1932. It lives in a book that talks about technology that we don't have now a days, that it talks about test tube babies and about the destruction of Christianity.  The controversy lives because it portrays what we may live one day. I've always wondered how Greek Mythology, once the equivalent to the fervent Christian faith, is now a mere echo of an early faith that has taken many forms over millenia.  One day, will people call Christianity mythology? Brave New World has shown me we may someday reject the power of story in favor of a society void of a soul.

Written as a reaction to industrialization, "Brave New World" portrays an attempt of an Utopian society, which like the asylum in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" works based on machinery. In both worlds happiness is relative, in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" the patients are maintained under a daily doze of "medication", while in "Brave New World" happiness is achieved by taking a hallucinogenic drug called SOMA, which blocks out bad feelings and allows a person to feel happiness exclusively, because "everyone has the right to be happy."

In both novels I have found there is a non conforming character, in teh case of "Brave New World" this character would be Marx, a man who lives thinking the world ought to be different to just soma prescriptions in order to achieve happiness. McMurphy on his side is a controlling man who refuses to take his "medication" and live by the rules posed by society. In both novels we see a machine like world, "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" runs over a perfect machine and "Brave New World" assembles the world so it reaches perfection.

Even then both authors are extremely reluctant to the societies they live in. Neither of them likes to think that the people on the top floor run the world, and therefore portray the lack of perfection in Utopian societies. Societies, that strive to run smoothly in this machine run world.