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Brave new world: the instruction manual.
Only the ruling class are seen as full humans and their lives are nothing more than a massive cradle-to-grave party where they enjoy all the things they tell poor people are ‘sinful’ all the time and free of charge. Eugenics and transhumanism have boosted them to nigh-godhood
Lower ranking people are literally programmed to enjoy their menial labor. Porky’s whole thing irl is telling us to forget college or any other life-changing experience and leaving our hometowns and just do all the undesirable jobs they don’t want to do for shit pay…with a smile on our faces (seriously, I felt ill reading that bit because as an autistic person, that’s literally how they want me to be. An NPC happy to spend my whole life doing menial labor for no reward.)
Genuine question, what role do you think eugenics plays in this?
Also, are kids being told to forget college when college students are a cash cow? When I was a kid it was all about going to college because you'll literally (not really) be making $150k+ with a bullshit degree, anyone can buy a nice house, and have a nice life in no time. Then 2008 ruined the party. I figure schools are still telling kids to go to college but the kids just realize they can't afford it? Honestly don't blame them.
Sorry, kind of BMF’d too close to the sun.
I’m making more of a prediction on what this will lead to, but I can totally see the rich at some point wanting to collectively tamper with the human genome to try to selectively breed for “desirable” traits among them, and they will try to genetically engineer humans to be more submissive to them.
As for the forget college part, that seems to be the next “learn to code” that’s told for gen Z. Of course the rich will go and they’re probably somewhat counting on some non-nepo babies going to college anyways despite their “warning”, but they just handwave away disgruntled graduates that they should have learned a trade or started their own business instead.
Nothing to apologize about! That all makes sense to me.
I was also in the middle of things and what you said interested me.
I read Brave New World for the first time a few months ago. I found it really weird how the most explicit theme of the book is how suffering terribly like the people in the desert reservation is required to make life worthwhile, given the class structure you just pointed out. It was treated as little more than world-building. This is particularly strange considering 2 of the book's protagonists are (in name at least) Marx and gender swapped Lenin.