Civilization in Brave New World :: Brave New World

Civilization in Brave stark naked institution The dictionary defines civilized as advanced in social customs, art,and science. The keyword open is social customs. A persons estimate of whatis civilized is relative to his culture. Through go forth the recital of man,one can see many changes in customs, and customs is what defines our ideaof what is civilized. The word civilized is one of the most relativeconcepts. Time and distance are what have shaped our customs for thousands ofyears. If we look back throughout history we can see many customs that mayseem odd, or even barbaric, to us but were everyday events to these ancientpeople. For example, the Aztec conducted sacrifices, to their Gods, inwhich they torn out their victims heart with a knife, and their priests andwarriors proceeded to eat the victims flesh. Yet, the Aztec wereconsidered to be one of the most civilized group of Indians in the westernhemisphere. The Anasazi, commonly called cave-dwellers, who from birth,use d wood and bindings to elongate the head. plain today in Japan,tradition says that women are supposed to walk ten feet behind theirhusbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who are we to judgewhen the United States has had a long history of racial and ethnicdiscrimination and only now are we changing. The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but hassimple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how muchhave we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years past in England,we killed people for conducting scientific experiments and believed thiswas against the teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World isa mirror to our own when we view the past. If a person from the presentwere to see the sacrifices and eating of the human flesh by the AztecIndians, that person would see it as barbaric in contrast to his ownculture. Isnt it true that what we view as barbaric or gaga isalways in comparison to own. Doesnt it stand to reas on that in a societywithout families, they would view monogamy as uncivilized? This societyhas been shaped by hundreds of years and will continue to change in theyears to come. Many of the civilized behaviors for the society of Brave New World arevery different from our own. The main concern was to keep everyone happy.Two efforts to do this were to teach them to be selfish and take soma. The