I recently finished Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Surprisingly, I was never required to read it high school. Since I didn't spend a lot of time in college it never came up on a reading list there either. Like 1984, it Disturbed me deeply. Unlike It Can't Happen Here, which was thick with political propaganda, BNW shows something that is fiction but looking where the world has gone since I've been alive. It could be close to reality.
The idea that we would "manufacture" people to be slaves is just disturbing. For some reason I am appalled by this more than putting normal people into slavery. The intentional dumbing down of a person seems awful. I can't help but think that is where we are headed. An article in the Vancouver Sun shows my fears to becoming true. Not allowing students to reach their full potential should be criminal. What Calgary schools are doing is dumbing down society. Alberta will be a population of slaves and left behind because the few people who have the potential don't have the opportunity to be the best that they can be. It seems they want everyone to be the same. A generic pile of blah.
Idiocracy here we come, "Plants love electrolytes".
