The society from Huxley’s Brave New World has many implications regarding its classifications as a utopia or a dystopian society. The reason being deals with an ambiguity in perspective – from the perspective of the inhabitants, life is “happy” and there are no complains, however, from the perspective of anyone from the outside world, the society is immediately banded a dystopia as emotional understanding and comprehension has been stripped away from humanity. Depending on whose point of view, the new world has a lot of potential, but as an informed reader living in the “real world,” a reader whom has emotional understanding and comprehension, the society stands no chance at classification of utopian. Rather, until individuality is restored and emotional competence is ubiquitous, the society remains dystopian.
The entire foundation of the society is built upon the psychological and biological alterations that the inhabitants undergo from conception till death, ultimately transforming them into robotic, nonautonomous entities resembling the low-level cognitively aloof residue of the competent human individual. Given a controlled environment where the only cognitively advanced species is one of said people, problems cannot stem and as such the society in and of itself, from an inside perspective is fine. However, given the scientific phenomenon of mutation and standard deviation of genetics and cognitive abilities, it is inevitable that one or more of the produced individuals will obtain an elevated sense of awareness and begin to understand the moral and ethical walls which should confine the process. Accordingly, once one understands the uncontrollable, forced delimintation of mankind, the social order losses stability, transforming a utopia into a dystopia of oppression.
Emotional suppression, and specifically, fabricated sensations, leads the new world to an inevitable spiral of collapse once a naturalistic mean of aspiration is discovered. Psychologically drugging its inhabitants, the new world creates a false sense of happiness which is unmated by anything else in the physical world; the natural human heuristic of comparison is crippled as such as the world’s experiences of negative emotions are removed from existence via biochemical and biophysical methods. In accordance to an exception of autonomy in a dystopian society, the delivery of the full spectrum of experiencable human emotions would prove mental enlightenment to the individual, and demonstrate the society restrictive, along with the fabricated sense of happiness rendered obsolete. The vision of a utopian society destroyed as fabrication becomes a deprecated mean of emotional control.
