A Brave New World is Pending :: Brave New World Essays

A Brave bare-assed World is pending    In the March 6 issue of Science News, J. Raloff wrote If pregnancies early in adulthood reduce a womans lifelong risk of developing detractor cancer, could short-term hormonal treatments that simulate aspects of pregnancy do the same amour? A new study suggest that the answer is yes.   Reading that fast-forwarded my liking to a horrible future, one described in Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, where women of the future undergo surrogate pregnancies. In the book it was for mental reasons, only when now, theres a physical reason to do such a hormonal treatment.   How many other predictions will come true in the next, say, 20 years? Already we have television, airplanes, submarines, cyberspace and virtual reality. Is the next measure a measurable move toward Utopia? Will we eery live with ameliorate health? Will we stave off death so efficaciously that we are killed for population control reasons at the old, old age of 60? Will we lose sight of the goal of a long, productive life, discard it for a long, forever young life (making aging a disease, because drugs to lift the here and now build up to a painful later)?   Im all for advancement in medicine. My own father, an oncologist and hematologist, deals with ground-breaking new procedures and medicines on a nonchalant basis. But to air out my cautious side if the government ever starts worshiping Henry Ford, outlawing Shakespeare, instituting mandatory sterilization of certain groups of people, encouraging and perpetuating class divisions and distributing drugs to influence potential conflict, help me out by saying STOP actually, really loudly.   Then again, this government does revere Henry Ford in a way. If a rangy car company wanted something done that was cussed to the desires of a community, my bets are on the car company. This thorough encouragement of big business and the tradition of such can almost be seen as worship.   Whil e Shakespeare hasnt been outlawed anywhere (as far as I know), inform Darwins theory of Natural Selection is banned in some civilize districts. J.D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye is banned in some school day districts.   Ruth Sherman, a white teacher in a dim and Hispanic neighborhood in New York, left her job in fear for her life over a book called Nappy fuzz some parents (who of course, hadnt read the award-winning novel and for the most part werent her students parents) panorama it was racist and divisive.