Submitted by SnooAdvice4813 t3_zr3rkl in books
SnooAdvice4813 OP t1_j11kkah wrote
Reply to comment by Uzzer_lozer19 in Does the "brave new world" truly display a dystophia? by SnooAdvice4813
I think your argument is that, for the social stability and the Utopia to be maintained, the social norms would have to become extremely tyrannical. But are the norms truly tyrannical or are they merely practical. There will be norms in any human society, and not all behaviour would be socially acceptable. Thus if those norms work to create a utopia where everyone is happy and satisfied, perhaps they are fine. Though, i would say that the scene which you speak of does a good job describing the fragility of a utopia built on such norms, in observation of most people in the society who have not interacted with this person from the outside world (which is, in fact, an anomaly), they seem to be “all good”.
Uzzer_lozer19 t1_j136zw2 wrote
Yeah that's a way of looking at it although I'm nit sure why you're being down voted because of it but maybe there is something I missed from the book.
It's a common theme in most sci fi books and movies where outsiders fight against the social norm. Pop culture examples would be 'Demolition Man', 'The Surrogates', '1984', 'Logans Run' are all the same basic premise
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