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Linda’s Perfect Holiday

Linda said, “The return of civilization was the return of her to soma.” She never wanted to live her life the normal way, she wanted to take holiday after holiday. Linda never wanted to remember her old life or remember the shameful thoughts. This seems like it would be a perfect life, not worrying about anything and just having a great time, but its all in her dreams. What kind of mother would leave her child in disappointment for her acts. I guess she never really thought there would be side affects of soma.Instead she is taking 20 gramme of soma a day to relive her stress and leaving John alone with Bernard, who isn’t doing so great looking after him. I wouldn’t be able to leave my son in the hands of someone I’ve only know for a couple of days. I hope people realize that families are a huge part of our lives and they help guide us.

Tags: Holiday, Linda, Soma
Posted in Brave New World

Eternal holiday

The idea of taking soma to go on an eternal holiday is just plainly immoral. I know it doesn’t matter in this manufactured and conditioned society but to go on soma for two months and then move on eternally to the afterlife is impulsive to Linda’s higher power. When life doesn’t turn out the right way take control and alter the course of life. When I have a bad day I sit down and see what sacrifices I have to make, where I need to improve and most of all change my attitude. Live life to the fullest it is not measurable compared to the holiday that soma gives you. Even I don’t know exactly what soma does to you but I’m sure it can be compared to today’s modern drugs (Which still I don’t know what they do). Choosing to take death by soma rather than the way God intended us to, is not morally correct. Live life until it is time to go, life is short as it is don’t hit the accelerator quite yet. It is suicide in a nutshell. Why turn on the radio and television and waste the last two months of life popping pills? Experience an eternal holiday that starts off with dreams but turns into the reality of death. True happiness comes from living the dream, and loving family for Ford sakes. I guess when people come out of a bottle there’s no reason to live for. No reason to prolong life when it is nothing but over excessive indulgences. Linda is not from a utopian society she is from a society with morals and family genetics and should be doing what we all do, live life.

Tags: Brave New World, God, Soma
Posted in Uncategorized

Soma For That

The idea of taking soma to go on an eternal holiday is just plainly immoral. I know it doesn’t matter in this manufactured and conditioned society but to go on soma for two months and then move on eternally to the afterlife is impulsive to Linda’s higher power. When life doesn’t turn out the right way take control and alter the course of life. When I have a bad day I sit down and see what sacrifices I have to make, where I need to improve and most of all change my attitude. Live life to the fullest it is not measurable compared to the holiday that soma gives you. Even I don’t know exactly what soma does to you but I’m sure it can be compared to today’s modern drugs (Which still I don’t know what they do). Choosing to take death by soma rather than the way God intended us to, is not morally correct. Live life until it is time to go, life is short as it is don’t hit the accelerator quite yet. It is suicide in a nutshell. Why turn on the radio and television and waste the last two months of life popping pills? Experience an eternal holiday that starts off with dreams but turns into the reality of death. True happiness comes from living the dream, and loving family for Ford sakes. I guess when people come out of a bottle there’s no reason to live for. No reason to prolong life when it is nothing but over excessive indulgences. Linda is not from a utopian society she is from a society with morals and family genetics and should be doing what we all do, live life.

Tags: Brave New World, Holiday, Soma
Posted in Brave New World

Unnoticed in Utopia

When the smoke rises from the factory from a burning corpse does someone shed a tear? When not enough soma is taken or a cell is not perfectly split does anyone care? What is death like in Utopia. Here on earth I live a life of happiness and meaning. I hope when I pass on I am not just some random dust in the air as the “humans” are in Brave New World. Humans on our world are honored and remembered when they pass on. In Brave New World I do not think there is much time for mingling with the other workers. There is no time for a relationship, only sensual pleasures. When Bernard and Lenina were flying over the factory Bernard had no remorse when he was talking about the incineration of the corpses. I would think that the same reaction would come from others workers in the factory. To think about being compacted in a little factory with hundreds of thousand others workers it would not be so bad to loose just one. Death in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center would not be only forgotten, but unnoticed.

Tags: Bernard, Brave New World, Death, Lenina, relationship, Sensual Pleasures, Soma, Utopia
Posted in Brave New World, Death, English 20

Human Thoughts

Bernard is the truest humanly character in Brave New World. All the beings in the factory have such small brain capacities that are influenced by plentiful soma and conditioning. Bernard is starting to see through to the light. All the workers in the factory are so affected by soma and conditioning that they don’t expand their knowledge on life any further. Why search for the meaning of life if I am “happy”?, is the thought of the workers. When Bernard stopped the helicopter looking into the sunset he recited his thoughts about life to Lenina. I applaud Bernard for thinking so deep and voicing his opinion to Lenina. He must have much respect for Lenina if he trusts her with that deep of thoughts. In Utopia in the factory it is considered wrong to think this deep about your being. The common and true thing to do in the factory is work, soma, and have sensual pleasures. Bernard would be thought down upon if anyone found out about his intense thinking. In time Bernard will soon see through the crazy system that he is living in and revolt. If I was stuck in a factory not able to advance and travel through life I would look for a way out as well.

Tags: Bernard, Brave New World, factory, Lenina, Sensual Pleasures, Soma, Workers
Posted in Brave New World, English 20, Human Thoughts

Childhood

When I was a kid I was never embarrassed of what I did because whatever I did I thought was fun. But if I was a character in Brave New Word I would be embarrassed for ever act I did. Nobody in this book knows how there acting and how its completely self-demeaning. The doctors in this book lack the respect for ever gender,age, or rankings in society. In our society your usually not encouraged to play erotic games at the age of 7 and 8 and take drugs to make yourself happy. But it seems everything we consider breaking the law is the life style of the people in Brave New World.

When I was young I was just like every other boy in my class, just wanting to have fun. Not once did I think of talking or even getting close to a girl, I usually tried being a dick so they wouldn’t talk to me. These young children are used as sexual experiments and the adults are expected to be with hundreds of opposite sex every year. The higher rank you are the higher the expectations are.

Tags: Brave New World, Children, Soma
Posted in Brave New World

Soma

In Brave New World soma is considered the perfect drug. Soma is a drug with the capability of allowing a person to take a vacation for up to a month. When someone is on soma its like living without emotion. Without emotions and pain I would never be able to learn from my mistakes. I couldn’t imagine having no emotions. Your day-to-day basis would always be the same and you’d never feel emotional pain. When someone in Brave New World goes on soma something has gone wrong in their life and they want all those painful emotions to go away. They just want to be free and live a comfortable life. Emotions are what make a person them and taking this pill wouldn’t show who they really are.Taking a pill to be relieved of your emotions reinforces what living is really all about. Life can’t always be perfect and we have to face the good and the bad times in our lives.

Tags: Brave New World, Emotions, Soma
Posted in Brave New World

Happy Drugs

Soma is a very complex and confusing aspect of life in Brave New World. In today’s world, there are many illegal drugs that can be very close in comparison to soma, they are a ‘vacation’ from everyday life. These anti-depresent similar drugs are used by the people of Brave New World so they do no have to think, and never figure out the truth of their lives. I see these drugs as an evil way to keep people in the dark without them knowing.

Drugs like these do exist in our present day, and they are a controversial topic. I know drugs today are the cause of many problems with young people, like the worries of our future because adults only see these young people who have addictions to drugs. I have an aunt who seen people coming into the clinic she was a nurse at when they were high, and has had horrible nightmares about them as they were in such bad shape. I am very lucky to have the family I do, because they have influenced me to stay away from those kinds of things.

Tags: anti-depresents, Evil, Soma
Posted in Brave New World

Soma

Bernard is having trouble coping with reality and using Soma. Soma is a drug with the capability of allowing a person to take a vacation for up to a month. Without pain in my life, I would never learn from my mistakes. Soma is taken to be relieved of emotional discomfort or pain. When someone is on Soma it is like living without emotions. Soma would make life a lot easier to bare at the worst of times. Especially when my uncle Keith drowned in Muriel Lake. It took over a week to find his body after due to the weather and conditions. This was the worst moment in my life. I wish that I had some soma, so that I could have taken a vacation during that week. When life knocks you down you got to pick yourself up. It can not always be a perfect world.

Tags: Brave New World, Emotions, Pain, Soma
Posted in Uncategorized

Soma

I would never want to take a drug like soma especailly like the characters do in Brave New World. I could not belive how reliant these charcters were on soma. When anyone in this book is depressed they go and have soma. I would never turn to drugs when I am feeling depressed. Whenever I am feeling depressed I turn to my family and friends to help cheer me up.

As Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford from M.A.S.H. would say I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

I am strong believer that each individual should cherish their family and to me my famly is the most important part of my life. These are what the clones are missing out is a family that they can turn to when they are feeling depressed. I strongly disagree when nurse giving these children soma when they are experiencing mental, physical or spiritual issues. These workers are just passing soma around like it is candy. I believe the employer are teaching the workers whenever they run into a dilemna to turn to a drug to make the porblem disappear.

Tags: Brave New World, Soma
Posted in Brave New World

Some Soma

I can’t believe how dependent on soma some of the characters of Brave New World are, they treat it like candy. Every time they are emotionally depressed or something they can pick themselves up by using soma. Soma is some kind of drug that is used to basically neglect your emotions. In chapter three one morning they start the day with a cup of coffee and a gramme or two of soma. I wouldn’t want to even go near the stuff. WIthout emotions everyone would be the same lifeless robots that just blitz through life without doing or feeling anything. Even though people don’t actually use soma in reality there are things similar to this when people are depressed they feel they need something either alcohol, other drugs, or something. In the movie “Batman Begins“, I like when Alfred asks Bruce ” Why do we fall down? So we can learn to pick ourselves.” I agree that when I get depressed I can’t rely on something else to cheer me up, I have to rely on myself.

Tags: Brave New World, Soma
Posted in Brave New World, English 20

Unseen Consequences

Mustapha Mond is a very intellect man in running the factory at this point in the book. Soma is the heart of the system. Whenever a worker is feeling down on a physical, mental, or spiritual side, soma is the cure. Although the soma is working efficiently now what happens when the “humans” become immune to the drug? Mustapha Mond’s only solutions to all his personal and factory problems are soma. There are so many drawbacks with the soma and Mustapha is not planning for them. The factory is not only using the soma for fixing a decrease in physical, mental, and spiritual health but to boost healthy “humans”. The thought of getting drugged up at a meeting is absurd. They were passing the soma around like it was candy. When the workers and staff at the factory keep taking soma in doses as they have been, they will soon become immune to it. With using such a high amount of soma use in the factory, it will soon see a huge economical downfall.

Tags: ecomonmic, factory, human, Mustapha Mond, personal, Soma
Posted in Brave New World, English 20, Soma

from Staying Human in an Engineered Age.

Will we decide that we’ve grown powerful enough? Can we draw a line and say, “this far and no further”?

How do we control the techno-scientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species?

Is it possible for us to refuse to do something that we can do?

Must we forever grow in reach and power? Or can we, should we ever, say, “Enough”?

Is it possible that our technological reach is very nearly sufficient now?

Are our lives sufficiently comfortable?

The question of who will be the first clone is, in the course of things, unimportant; the real issue is what will follow. Who will be that last?

Attempting to alter the human body is nothing new, so why not alter the genes? Once the first step has been taken, why not continue down the road?

Why not inject an embryo with the patented genes of a champion?

Future contests won’t celebrate human excellence, but “who’s got the better biotech sponsor?”

Will the ‘average’ human, once ‘improved’, have no more reason to run marathons?

Compare Somatic Gene Therapy to Germline Gene Therapy

Who wants an ugly baby?

Should scientists treat illnesses the patients do not have?

Who would want exact copies of humans?

Human genome has “slightly more” genes than a mustard weed.

Could you genetically engineer higher intelligence?

What do Jacques, Gordie, and Wayne have in common with a pig?

Tags: Conditioning, logic, Man, nothing, question, reason, Science and Technology, Soma, something, use, Utopia, wit
Posted in Pingo Lingo