Essay on the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley: a contemporary critical proposal

Abstract

In times of great technological advancement and setbacks with regard to human aspects, the "Homo" described by Biology as "Sapiens" evolves into "Homo Machined". This new configuration of man governed by Science, Technology, Capitalism and Globalization is reflected in a new human paradox: the overvaluation of the economy at the expense of life, impacting the relationships / configurations of living. Thus, the present essay aims to make a critical analysis of the book “Admirável Mundo Novo” by Aldous Huxley, which discusses the relationship between man who creates a system, and which, when crossed by its creation, becomes its own product in the cycle of producing. The book “Brave New World” is a parable that romanticizes the dehumanization of human beings. It is identified that, since its first publication in 1932, the world has sunk so far in the wrong direction sowing the commercialism of life and the culture of competitiveness that it erodes sociability and destroys the intrinsic feelings of human society that, if if the author wrote the same work today, fiction would not be six hundred years from the present. And the consequence of freedom, or rather, of simple humanity, would have turned out to be inhuman.