Brave New World Bibliography

Weiss, Rick. "Stem Cell Research Article, Embryonic Cells Information, Cell Therapy Facts -- National Geographic." Science and Space Facts, Science and Space, Human Body, Health, Earth, Human Disease - National Geographic. National Geographic. Web. 02 Oct. 2010.


Rick Weiss's attempts to persuade the audience to agree with stem cell researched, based on the medical advancements it could create, while acknowledging how it may be considered an immoral act by many religions, and people. Weiss also explains several advancements relating to stem cells that have already been made, such as the retrieving of cells from adult humans, as well as umbilical cord blood.


In his opening paragraph, Weiss expresses that "Scientists have long dreamed of plucking those naive cells from a young human embryo and coaxing them to perform," just as the scientists from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, inject embryos with various chemicals to cause them to grow in a way that is desired. The controversy of stem cell research is that some consider it immoral because it devalues human life, in the form of an embryo, just as Huxley expresses the lack of mortality that is to come because of technology in Brave New World. According to Weiss, after stem cells are retrieved from embryos they are placed in an environment that will enforce them to grow into "colonies", just like the Bokanivskify's Process of the first chapter of Brave New World, where an ovary is separated into as many as sixteen thousand and twelve identical embryos. Weiss says that there are many people who "warn of a brave new world of "embryo farms" and "cloning mills" for the cultivation of human spare parts." The people Weiss refers to describe something extremely similar to the Central London Hatching And Conditioning Centre of Brave New World.






Schuman, Micheal. "The BRICs: Plotting a New World Order? - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com." The Curious Capitalist - Commentary on the Economy, the Markets, and Business - TIME.com. 16 Apr. 2010. Web. 07 Oct. 2010. .


In this article, Schuman explains his perspective on an almost cryptic communique from BRIC, a sort of alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, and China, who are all emerging economic powers. According to Schuman, BRIC is "plotting what the world will look like when they're in charge." Schuman fears that BRIC is plotting a New World Order, something feared by many, and wanted by few. He quotes BRIC to show that he isn't imagining things, and that if the reader were to read between the lines, he would find similar ideals within the text. Schuman says that "these burgeoning powers rightfully want (and rightfully deserve) the influence over the world economic system to match their grown economic might"


The threat on a New World Order is extremely significant, and relevant in Brave New World. Huxley's characters live in an extremely corrupt "World State." Schuman worries that because these four powerful countries have decided to create there own organization, "rather than meeting in a global forum" that they may be up to something sinister. In Brave New World the governmental system is based off of Communism, and BRIC is practically run by China, a Communist country. Schuman explains that "China is easily the dominant force of the group, both economically and politically, and the BRICs can't do much without Beijing on board." Schuman also quotes David Rothkopf who said "Without China, the BRICS are just the BRI, a bland, soft cheese that is primarily know for the whine that goes with it. China is the muscle of the group and the Chinese know it. They have effective veto power over any BRIC initiatives because without them, who cares really?" If BRIC is successful in creating a New World Order, China will surely take over and create a governmental system similar to that found in Brave New World.






Provider, By. "TEXT - Communique from BRIC Summit in Brasilia." Yahoo! India Finance. 16 Apr. 2010. Web. 07 Oct. 2010. .


This is a communique from the BRIC summit in Brasilia, which outlines what BRIC considers to be an ideal monetary system. That outline there "Vision" for "Global Governance" and how "Economic and Financial Issues" should be dealt with. The communique addresses a "International Economic and Financial Issues," "International Trade," "Development," "Agriculture," the "Fight Against Poverty," "Energy," "Climate Change," "Terrorism," the natural disaster that occurred in Haiti, and "Cooperation."


The BRIC communique states that the BRIC strongly supports a "multipolar, equitable and democratic world order, based on international law, equality, mutual respect, cooperation, coordinated action and collective decision-making of all States." In Brave New World, the Earth is a "World-State" whose government is based off of the principles of Communism. The BRIC states that they believe in "building a harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity." In Brave New World, most of the brainwashed citizens of the World-State are willing to give up emotions, spirituality, and individuality for the sake of civilization, peace, and living harmoniously. The BRIC communique uses words like "stability," "solidarity," and "cooperation" almost more then any other words. The motto of Brave New World's World-State is "COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." Both base it on being one mass, based on consistency, and a singular system. In order to have a singular system, the world organisation would need to be formed on a singular belief system, which could only be accomplished through brainwash. In Brave New World, the people are "conditioned" from infancy to belief certain things, rather then make up their own mind about them. The BRIC is another example of how close we are coming to the scary reality of the Brave New World mindset.









Rudgley, Richard. "The Soma of History." Aldous Huxley : Brave New World. 

Richard Rudgley describes the history of the drug soma, and the attempt to discover it's chemical makeup. During an archaeological dig of an Asian ritual ground, some key ingredients of the ancient Soma, were discovered. According to Rudgley, Soma was first created by Indo-Iranians, who lived in Central Asia. They became divided into Indo-Aryans, and Iranians. Both groups were able to keep record of their miracle drug: Soma, also known as Haoma. It was a hallucinogenic drug used in rituals, and many have tried to recreate the drug unsuccessfully.

In Brave New World, the drug Soma is used to retreat to an imaginary "trip to the gorgeous East," or the "dark eternity on the moon." The Soma created by the ancient civilizations was a mix of different plants, and chemicals, that created a hallucinogenic drink for various religious practices. In Brave New World, there is a ritual that also uses Soma."The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, "I drink to my annihilation," twelve times quaffed." In the World-State that Bernard is a part of, Soma is used in a sexual ritual, where as in ancient Indian, and Iranian civilizations, it was used in a more religious ritual. Done in a "sacred fire temple" a form of "shrine," for worship services. Either way, Soma was used to escape reality, and was considered an important part of life and considered necessary in the system of civilization.