We all have heard about the new crazes and fastest times things have been put together by humans or now machines however in the chapter by Neil Postman's Technopoly , it shows that the ideas and “productivity found by men such as Seigfried Gidion, and in Brave New World, Henry Ford who changed the way people thought about how to “make goods speedy.”, In a technocracy society is loosely controlled by social custom and religious belief. It is believed that an unseen hand, or “an act of God” for the benefits of the human race to flourish. By the 1850s everything was made “more perfectly. ” This has a symbolic reference to Brave New World at the start of the novel by a man demonstrating the efficiency of making the greatest technology of all, humans. “With a single bokanovskified egg, ninety six identical twins can be (harvested).” (BNW 7). The main character was discontent or acting like a “luddite” which was a person who had “Naïve opposition of technology”(NP) However the technology had already spread like a disease and sparked a new kind of civilization. In Brave New World that civilization was full of brain dead “humans” who are doped up on “Soma” most days of the week. The “citizens did not know that science and technology did not provide philosophies in which to live.” In Brave New World it showed that the citizens and thought that the “Greater Being” wanted them to embellish the technologies and share their senses with everyone around them. “Orgy- porgy” a childish game made up by the children was a sick term that allowed their thoughts and beliefs to be shared into a big melting pot of an orgy. The people in Brave New World were technopoly which meant that religion was not used and instead ignored and treated in the book such as dirt needing to be swept away.
