Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2015

Chapter 2

1. What work does the conditioning do? Who gets conditioned? How does hypnopaedia work?
The 'Infant Nuseries, Neo-Pavloian Conditioning Rooms' are another aspect of the B. process which 'conditions' (trains) young borns to dislike or like specific objects like nature and books.
Hypnopaedic gets used by the government to avoid disagreement and differences between the classes.
2. Why condition the Deltas to hate nature but love outdoor sports?
As a result the lower castes now pay for transport and manufactured goods when they travel to the country for sport events.
3. How does time work in this book? History? Why does Ford say “History is Bunk?”
The time of this era is appearantly based on the experience during the first world war which affects the fantasy world being dark, unhuman and cold blooded. Technology is the 'religion' and Ford as one of the most famous inventor took the role of 'the main father of production' and time is based after his death. 
4. What are the various castes like, and why?
5. How do the students demonstrate their own conditioning?
The different classes demostrate their conditioning with showing loyality for their class and therefore disrespect and treat all classes below them as lower castes.

Brave New World

Chapter 1

1. Why is the first sentence strange? What does it set up?
The first sentence talks about the mertopolis london containing skyscraper with ridiculous quantities imcomparable with cities this era.
2. What is the meaning of the World State’s motto “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY?”
The world state presents a national and not individual leadership.
3. Why does the fertilizing room look so cold, when it is actually hot inside? What goes on there?
The fertilizing room is one of many facilities which comprise all the equipment needed creating human fetuses through sientific goals of the time. The progress provides the world with new workforces, but coldness appears because of the unhuman nearly robotic scientist playing 'god' and creating life.
4. Why do particulars “make for virtue and happiness,” while generalities “are intellectually necessary evils?”

5. How do people know who they are in this society?
People living in a era where 'social stability' is the highest social goal have to accept their given rules without questioning, because stubborn heads get unhesitating filtered out of the community and removed out of the civilization.
6. Why use the Bokanovsky process at all? How is it an instrument “of social stability?”
The Bokanovsky process is used as a principle to clone fetuses to create masses of scientific identical twins generating the most effecient workforce. These 'humans' live at the bottom of the society building the solid base of the world states society. Unable to rebel after lowering their EQ with
asphyxia in young age they are the perfect tool.
7. Why don’t the Epsilons “need human intelligence?”
Epsilons are used for the hardest physical work and get produced through the Bokanovsky process in thousends. Their work doesnt aquire any intelligence.