Brave New World: Society Today

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, he was making a point that our society was becoming more and more like that of Brave New World. When I first tried to find similarities between brave new worlds society and ours, I couldn't. The unbelievable level of government control in Brave New World made it hard to see any similarities that it shared with our society which boasts freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The first time that I noticed a similarity was watching the news. The news is something that many people base their opinions on. The news is also affiliated with the government. This means that indirectly the government is controlling the way we think. It`s can`t exactly be called brainwash and it`s nowhere near the extreme seen in Brave New World, but it is still a way in which our opinions are altered by the government and the media.