A world where people are not born, and family and love are banned | 5 minutes

A world where people are not born, family and love are forbidden | 5 minutes

People live happily. But they have no families, children are not born naturally, and love has become an unnecessary feeling for society. They mock the concept of parenthood. Most surprisingly, no one is dissatisfied with this. Because in this world, people do not choose how they live. Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" tells the story of exactly such a society.

The future society in the novel is called the "World State." Here, people are not born from mothers. Children are grown in special laboratories. Someone is prepared for leadership as an "alpha" type, while someone else is adapted to the ordinary working class. That is, a human is not born first and then finds their path. First, what kind of person they should be is determined, and then that person is created.

Interestingly, people are not against this. Because their minds have also been shaped since childhood. They do not choose who to be, what to like, or what to fear. Society has already done this work for them.

In this society, words like family and parents are perceived as relics of the past, even as something shameful. People must not become deeply attached to one another. Because feelings like strong love, loyalty, jealousy, and loss can destabilize a person. And this state needed people who would not be destabilized.

If anyone experiences even a little sadness or doubt, they take a drug distributed free of charge by the state called "soma" and immediately return to a world of false happiness. In this world, reading books, religious beliefs, or being alone are forbidden, because these threaten stability.

This society chose not to feel the problem rather than to solve it.

There is a character in the novel named Bernard Marx. He is also from the Alpha generation, but he feels like an outsider in this perfect society. Everyone around him is satisfied with everything, but Bernard does not stop asking the question "why." Sometimes, a single "why" can make a person an outsider to the entire system.

A young man named John, who grew up in the "savage reservation," is brought into this strange society. The savage society was not part of the World State. There, people are still born naturally, grow old, get sick, die, love, feel jealous, fight, and cry.

The savage John grew up reading Shakespeare. Therefore, he knows the price of both love and tragedy. In his view, human life does not consist only of pleasure. Love is also not an entertainment that can be replaced whenever you want. It contains loyalty, jealousy, sacrifice, and even suffering.

When Bernard brings John to the World State, everyone perceives him as an interesting creature worth watching. John, on the contrary, is shocked by their lives. He falls in love with Lenina, but Lenina's concept of love and what John imagined were completely different things.

The World State tried to save humans from suffering. John, on the other hand, wants to show that a human cannot remain human without suffering.

Because if you eliminate sadness, the value of joy also changes. If there is no choice, even a right decision loses its value.

According to the author, to control a human, it is not always necessary to frighten them. It is enough to give them enough pleasure.

We may not be living in a "Brave New World" yet. But some of the doors described by Huxley have already been opened. Technology is entering human life deeper and deeper. Knowledge about birth, genetics, appearance, abilities, and possibilities related to the human body is expanding day by day. Science itself is not bad. On the contrary, science is a great blessing given to humanity. But the increase in possibilities must not cross eternal boundaries.

Because one day, a human, starting with the good intention of "we will defeat disease," might cross over to the point of "we will also determine what kind of human should be born." Forgetting the boundaries of Allah is not out of the question.