A long time ago, I remember trying to convince my fellow high school classmates, as we were reading Huxley's Brave New World, that it would be better to take the Soma and follow Ford than the alternative.
Of course, no one identifies with a society that drugs its citizens and creates a strict caste system. I didn't find any takers for my …
A long time ago, I remember trying to convince my fellow high school classmates, as we were reading Huxley's Brave New World, that it would be better to take the Soma and follow Ford than the alternative.
Of course, no one identifies with a society that drugs its citizens and creates a strict caste system. I didn't find any takers for my argument.
And yet... we now have a public school system that, through DEI, advocates exactly that. Perhaps the argument would proceed differently today, though I doubt any teacher interested in remaining employed would teach Brave New World.
We have to fight it because, like John in the novel, we were born in exile and cannot find happiness in that society.
Now, as we raise children, we see them joining their peers on TikTok, in classrooms where they are taught to express their feelings (as long as they are appropriate feelings) and disdain anything uncomfortable, like learning about the world.
A long time ago, I remember trying to convince my fellow high school classmates, as we were reading Huxley's Brave New World, that it would be better to take the Soma and follow Ford than the alternative.
Of course, no one identifies with a society that drugs its citizens and creates a strict caste system. I didn't find any takers for my argument.
And yet... we now have a public school system that, through DEI, advocates exactly that. Perhaps the argument would proceed differently today, though I doubt any teacher interested in remaining employed would teach Brave New World.
We have to fight it because, like John in the novel, we were born in exile and cannot find happiness in that society.
Now, as we raise children, we see them joining their peers on TikTok, in classrooms where they are taught to express their feelings (as long as they are appropriate feelings) and disdain anything uncomfortable, like learning about the world.
What to do?