Brave New World #4

Even though the idea of people being happy without pain or suffering sounds appealing, the means to achieve that are disturbing. Individuality and knowledge are important parts of being human, and these qualities are taken away. It's possible that a utopia can only be achieved by taking away knowledge so that people can't be happy and rebel, but it's a bothersome thought. People should be able to feel different emotions and not be brainwashed or placed in a part of society without any choice. I think scientific knowledge is abused by making all those test tube babies and then putting them in different societal groups and conditioning them in certain ways to fit the society. Ignorance and lack of knowledge fuels the success, if you can call it that, of the utopian society. People have no reason to be unhappy or question standards if they can't think for themselves. Although the idea of a utopian society in terms of everyone being happy sounds nice, I don't think it can be achieved in a way without taking away basic human rights such as thought and individuality.