What the writer's purpose is in the article, "Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth", is to show that technology may someday dominate society. The author attempts to tell us the theme which is that God is to be forgotten and that “technology” will takes His place as God. The author uses logical appeals even strengthen his theme and he directs the theme to individuals looking for a better future in decades or centuries later.
The subject of this article describes how the world and everyone can be like if it became a technopoly. People will be living their lives as consumerist because they would be buying new products every day because of technology advancing every day. All of our junk will be thrown away and new junk will replace the old ones, a never ending cycle.
The main point that the author tries to show is that society could be controlled by technopoly and consumerism that is forced onto the people even if the people want to fix what is broken. The author uses many resources from articles and uses quote from others to prove his point. The facts and statistics given in this article are important to the reader because it will give the audience some proof about technology becoming closer to dominating society. The evidence that is the most persuasive is the fact that children with ADHD will be given Ritalin or Adderall so that they can be more focused in school. This is the same as Brave New World because if someone was not happy, they would take Soma, a pill, and suddenly they are happy.
The author begins the introduction with having the novel talking about how “dangerously accurate prophesy of technology’s capacity to dominate society, and how this domination is silently changing the goals, moralities, and values of our culture.” The structuring of the article is mostly quotes and other article going back and forth with the novel and giving facts. His transitioning to article and novel is mostly about comparing the two. The language used is simple so that young readers may understand this well and so that it can be read without a problem to others.
This article is mostly logical appeals because of the facts from what he has used. I am amazed the article is true even in today. Consumerism is taking effect because of new technology that is being created every day, week, month, year, etc. I have seen people follow this like my brothers and the new iphone or a new whatever that peaks their interest. This is also a major must for people who shop because they want the latest outfits or accessory. Because technology is advancing at such a fast past, people will always buy the next BIG thing that others talk about. Although I have been told to wait until the next BIG thing, there will always be another BIG thing that will appear to surpass the product before it. Even though I don’t follow this “rule” now, I will follow it sooner or later without notice.
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/509/brave-new-world-and-the-threat-of-technological-growth
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