Topic > Summary of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - 1909

Mond and his compatriots and predecessors must forge and maintain this social paradigm through careful conditioning in order to produce an efficient community of constantly unrestrained consumers. “The current social ethic, of course, is simply an a posteriori justification of the less desirable consequences of excessive organization.” Here, in Revisited, Huxley posits that, in fact, the social ethos of a world-state-like society exists only to validate and vindicate how aspiring individuals are forced to conform to their assigned roles. However, Huxley continues by stating that we must understand that the social organism, or rather the "organization", is an inorganic instrument of society and its members, something that has value only as long as its parts - human beings - perceive a. Yet, more than half a century later, in 2014, the modern world has not been able to understand this wisdom (or perhaps ignores it?). Public educators of the time placed so much importance on “team work” and “community service” that it seems to be an absolute prerequisite for “team work””