"Television was left on, a running tap, from morning till night." (HUXLEY,180) In
the brave new world, the hospitals contain nonstop music and
television. They play the constant music and television to basically
distract people from the condition they are in. People in the brave new
world are so used to having a busy schedule that if they were put in a
normal hospital like the ones we have today they would realize the
condition they were in and would freak out. I believe we have surpassed
the technology in the brave new world because we have more advanced
medicine and machines.
"A medicated or semi-conscious patient’s perception is, at best, compromised. And, his or her sensory system is slower to respond or may be hypersensitive. What looks too bright may be normal daylight; what sounds too loud may not be; what sounds violent might be a sitcom on the hospital television."(Susan Maser Blog, http://www.healinghealth.com/hospital-television-acute-care-patient/) The quote from Maser's blog explains that hospitalized people cannot fully comprehend their media consumption and can be put into a frozen distracted state where they get stuck mindlessly watching.
"Our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get...And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. Which you go and chuck out of the window in the name of liberty, Mr. Savage. Liberty!... Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello! My good boy!... Of course [Othello is better than those feelies]. But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art." (HUXLEY,220)
"A medicated or semi-conscious patient’s perception is, at best, compromised. And, his or her sensory system is slower to respond or may be hypersensitive. What looks too bright may be normal daylight; what sounds too loud may not be; what sounds violent might be a sitcom on the hospital television."(Susan Maser Blog, http://www.healinghealth.com/hospital-television-acute-care-patient/) The quote from Maser's blog explains that hospitalized people cannot fully comprehend their media consumption and can be put into a frozen distracted state where they get stuck mindlessly watching.
"Our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get...And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. Which you go and chuck out of the window in the name of liberty, Mr. Savage. Liberty!... Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello! My good boy!... Of course [Othello is better than those feelies]. But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art." (HUXLEY,220)