Your goddamn teacher thought that Brave New World was a good place!? I don't think that's because she was left wing, I think at that point it's outright stupidity. The AP English teacher at my high school is a real piece of work in that regard; it pains me to know that more exist.
The idea is not stupid, it is a world without poverty, crime and war and everyone is happy. If you compare it to our current world where thousands of people die every day because of malnutrition and war it is a paradise.
"Happy?" If drugged out of your mind, rutting like animals is happiness. No art, no meaningful emotion. The entire world consists of opium and shitty porn plots involving pizza delivery men.
Knock yourself out.
Doesn't sound too bad, provided I'm too drugged to care.
And here-in lies the biggest problem.
Freedom is
hard. If you want it, it can't just be given to you, you've got to work to earn it. Then you've got to work to keep it, because somebody always wants to have an advantage over somebody else. So you've got to keep yourself informed, talk with other people, defend your own principles. You've got to go out and vote, and make sure that your candidates aren't too Authoritative at the same time as upholding the Law of the Land,
and knowing what the hell they're doing.
It's a hell of a lot easier to just sit on your ass, watch the government-approved news shows, eat the free government cheese, and smoke the government-approved dope, while somebody else tells you where you can work, how much you can make, what you're going to do on saturday, and how old you can live to be before being too great of a strain on the nation, and get shipped off the the
Soylent Green Factory Happy Valley Retirement Community. Sorry, no visitors allowed.
Sure, everybody has all their needs met. Sure, nobody is hungry, or poor, or not doing as well as somebody else.
But are they really happy? Are they really alive? So they have any drive, any passion?
Do they even know what these things are?
No.
I say
no.