Sunday, December 8, 2024
In retrospect: Brave New World – nature
“The story is set in AD 2540 (or 632 ‘After Ford’, the god of mass production). A World State manufactures its citizens by growing fetuses in bottles according to ‘Bokanovsky’s Process’: cloning many embryos from a single fertilized egg and treating them with chemical agents during development to produce a five-tier caste system of intelligence. Sex is recreational, love is obsolete and the idea of family is obscene.”