In “Brave New World” (1932), Aldous Huxley creates a world in which humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a dominant order. Huxley's novel expresses a dark vision of the future in which "people will come to love their oppression, to worship technologies that destroy their ability to think." In some respects it is a valid warning because we have some things in common with the World State, but in other respects we are in stark contrast to Brave New World society. Likewise, the recent scientific advances that have resulted in cloning are reminiscent of the reproductive processes used for the Deltas and Epsilons, along with the use of drugs that mirror the characteristics of the soma. Contrary to the World State, we are more passionate about the connections we make with other human beings and enjoy the freedom we have over our lives. These differences lead to the reason that it is against human nature and the desire to sit passively 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 ...