Huxley, Aldous - "Brave New World"

Huxley's "Brave new world" is one of the most important dystopian novels. The book was published in 1932. In this novel, Huxley describes a mechanized society dominated by a capitalist conception. In this context, individuality is annihilated.

Social Structure

The “Brave new world” describes a perfectly ordered society, that is divided into five hierarchically structured social classes. The members of these social classes have rights and duties based on their capabilities: alpha has leadership and government roles, beta has administrative assignments without command responsibility; The three lower classes have more practical and manual tasks, work more or less heavy depending on their intelligence: if the range and even the delta require a minimum of preparation and design, the epsilon must take care of the most humble jobs in most conditions hard. Classes are perfectly realistic and within them there is only a distinction between plus and minus, depending on the effectiveness with which they play their role; There is also a strong predestination criterion.

Fordist Paradigm

The society described by Huxley is the extrusion of the Fordist organizational paradigm, with a large dose of induced positivism, transposed into all dimensions of human life, from test tube birth to death.