More Workers; Less Thinkers

"For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society" (PG. 4)

In Brave New World's society, humans are mass produced for the benefit of the society. Their intelligence and natural instincts are manipulated so they will be useful in a specific job. Their DNA and traits are altered because it is for the betterment of the community. Our society doesn't go to that extreme, but we are more focused on our futures and preparing ourselves for our jobs. We go to school and study for years because in the end it is better for the community. In our world we don't have very many people making a living off of a career in philosophy; the number of people that do hard labor outweighs the number of people that spend their lives doing more "intellectual" things. Could we possibly in the future begin to sort babies into what type of job they will have? We do it now, somewhat, with career placement exams, but that's not until the children are a bit older. Our Society has some similarities with the society in Brave New World, but it's not taken to such an extreme. Perhaps in the future the world will be like the one which Huxley describes.