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Capabilities In Brave New World

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In Brave New World Huxley puts in to correlation our developments as human beings and easily adaptable psychological planes. There are labels of Delta, Alpha, Beta etc and they are categorized into different social groups pre formed by others to trained to believe they 're assigned capability may reach no other limit. In today 's world we see that labeling and preconceived notions of capabilities are applied to every human being and are molded by society. We are constantly labeled and it trains us to believe that 's just the way our lives were meant to be. There 's the working man, the wealthy man, the gorgeous models, average girls etc. "The principle of mass production at last applied to biology" pg.19 Mass production has always been a

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