BNW/ Gamer

"Brave New World" exemplifies the dystopian genre by seemingly creating a stable, sane, none chaotic world controlled by leaders and closely monitored in order to maintain their own sense of a "utopia". In many ways this is a dystopia because of the way the humans are engineered to feel certain feelings and think certain thoughts. If they feel anything out of the ordinary, they are prescribed to take soma, to do away with those feelings which are considered abnormal in their society. Those who do not coincide with those regulations are in term exiled. In ways, their "perfect" society is morally correct to them. Having children participate in sexual behavior. Making them do it, actually. Synthesizing the perfect embryo's to ripen and blossom into what they want them to be, all for a sense of a stable world? I couldn't abide in that form of a world. I'd rather live a life that's chaotic, erratic, unstable, and have my own free will. Be able to make mistakes and not be perfect and precise like most expect it to be. This piece of literature mostly reminds me of a movie that I've seen a few years back. Entitled, Gamer, where participants control humans online in a game, but the bargain is that persons life. This very eccentric leader of this dystopia, Ken Castle, has seemingly designed a way to control people's minds fully. Revolutionizing the gaming industry with self replicating nanites that replace existing brain cells and allow full control of motor skills by the third party, the person controlling the gamer. Since the story is set in the future, there are different versions to play this game. Society, in which a person gets to control another person in pseudo society. All in all, it revolves around a convict, being controlled and put through 30 levels, in which he will be released if he manages to stay alive through it all. He somehow finds a way out of this demented game and back into the real world, not previously knowing that there was an underground society secretly plotting against the world under siege by the technological industry. He goes after Ken Castle, eventually killing him and restoring some type of order and free will to their world. This work of literature and film mostly have in common the dystopian genre. Wanting more out of society. Wondering what else is out there other than what is expected of them and wanting to pursue their own sense of free will. The filmmakers most likely chose to go with this type of genre because most people in our society conform to it just because they feel as if they have no other choice. That everyone expects something out of you all in place of what the world has set out in front of them. For them to be scholars and athletes. Mathematicians, scientists, doctors or any other high end career that so overly stereo typical of what America expects out of it's society just because they believe it will convey a sense of peace or morality to others aspiring to be those things.  In my opinion, we don't necessarily live in a dystopia but it's far from being a utopia.