In “Brave New World” (1932), Aldous Huxley creates a world in which humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. Huxley's novel expresses a dark vision of the future where "people will come to love their oppression, to worship the technologies that destroy their abilities to think." In some ways this is a valid warning because we have some commonalities with the World State, but in other ways we stand in stark contrast to Brave New World society. Likewise, recent scientific advances that gave rise to cloning are reminiscent of the reproductive processes used for Deltas and Epsilons, as well as the use of drugs that reflect the characteristics of the soma. Unlike the World State, we are more passionate about the connections we make with other human beings and rejoice in the freedom we have in our lives. These differences lead to why it is against human nature and the desire to passively sit in the passenger seat and allow someone or something to take the wheel and decide where our lives will go. The most feared prospect is ...