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INDOCTRINATION
Ale Gallegos, Alberto Nordmann 9ºC
Objective
Develop your critical thinking skills
by deepening your conceptions of
Brave New World
What is indoctrination?
To teach someone to fully accept the ideas,
opinions, and beliefs of a particular group &
not consider others.
Indoctrination in Brave New World
Brave New World is based in a dystopia
happening in the future. Aldous Huxley
used a bunch of symbols and metaphors
to show how the government can
control everyone without them
noticing.
Indoctrination in Brave New World
The people in Brave New World are almost all clones,
and the ones that are not, live outside the cities in
reservations. They all believe in the same religion,
beliefs, and culture. The government indoctrinates
them, so they all think equally. They always say
“History is bunk” which means to live in the present,
and not in the past, and prohibit books. This is because
they are all sources of knowledge, which could change
the way they think.
Indoctrination in Brave New World
The whole purpose of all the clones is to create income
for the government, and make them richer. That’s why
they persuade people to consume drugs & alcohol every
time through propaganda, and keep them busy with
consumerism. Then, in order to keep them happy and
not revolt, they create social classes and give the
clones predetermined lives, so they are born thinking
their social class is the best.
Example #1: Islamic State
Islamic State (ISIS)
What is Islamic State (ISIS)?
Islamic State is the biggest terrorist group in the world. They
operate in the Middle East. They are muslims, and kill in the
name of god, because they think it’s the only religion people
should follow.
Islamic State kills 21 christian
egyptians
5 days ago, in Middle East, the Islamic State kidnapped
21 christian egypts, locked them in cages and marched
with them in their cages. Afterwards, they uploaded a
video online, of how they killed them.
Islamic State Indoctrination
Islamic State (ISIS) has become the biggest terrorist
group in history, because of 2 main reasons. First, they
have a lot of money, which gives them power and
control. But most importantly, they have a lot of
people. Islamic State has the record for most followers
in human history in a terrorist group.
Islamic State Indoctrination
But how have they achieved so many people to join?
Through indoctrination. They take religion as their
reason to kill. They convince everyone that islam is the
only true religion, and if someone disagrees, they
should be punished with death. They convince young
boys and adults that if they kill in the name of their
god, then they will be rewarded with infinite paradise.
And if they don’t, they will be punished for life.
Islamic State Indoctrination
Young boys are raised all their life with these beliefs.
They are taught day to day, that they should please
their god by killing others that don’t think like them.
They don’t know it’s wrong, because they have been
taught all their life it’s the right thing to do. So is it
really evil to kill someone if they think it’s O.K? I don’t
know, but what I do know, is that the real evil is
making them believe it’s O.K.
Example #2: China (communism) vs
USA (capitalism)
What is Communism?
Communism is an economic and social system
in which resources are shared equally
throughout citizens.
Communism in China History
● Communism in China started in 1921. Mao Zedong, who
was under control at that time, led to a revolution.
This whole point was so the communist party achieved
control. This was a success in 1947.
● One of their influences and inspirations were the
Soviet Model of development of industry so peasants
could participate too. In the 1950´s, Mao developed
Maoism, which is the way Chinese see communism.
Continuing history
● Mao got mad because of the peace coexistence
between communists and capitalists. So Maoists,
started a huge communism tradition.
● Finally, this lead to the Cultural revolution so China
could be a great industrialized community.
Unfortunately, this didn't have a great impact in China
because many people starved to death.
● Therefore, Mao eradicated his enemies and this lead
to many deaths and persecutions.
Communism in China in Modern Days
● The most current constitution was created in 1982, it has
not been completely accepted because it is currently being
revised. This constitution states that people have free of
speech, press, worship and the right to have their own
private property.
● However, most of these rights have not been followed.
Nothing has been done to ensure that new laws protecting
these rights are instituted in the constitution.
● The judicial system has no method for the revision of this
laws.
Continuing Communism in Modern
Days
● Computer usage in China has gotten insane. There are
over 210 million internet users and over 400 million
phone users. As a result, there has been a huge increase
in technology. Privacy, censorship, public ownership and
work ethic has become a huge ethical issue because the
government is able to control it.
What does it have to do communism
in China with indoctrination? Communism is one of the best examples of indoctrination.
In China, freedom is not a great choice for people. They
have rights like every other citizen, but the government
controls how much they can do and what they can have.
An example can be how China is making people have more
access to technology easier so they think they can have
the lifestyle they want to. But in reality, everything they
are doing if creating ideas in peoples head so they think
they can live the way they want to, but the only thing
they are really doing is getting more power over them and
gaining control.
What is Capitalism?
Capitalism is an economic system that treats
everyone as individuals with the means for producing
and distributing goods.
● United States first became predominantly capitalist by
1900’s. The earlier periods, while they began to form
a system, were divided into 3 periods.
● The first one came from 1600 to 1790 is considered the
semi-capitalist economy because of commercial
production of tobacco, along with other elements. All
the work they did was done by enslaved and semi-
enslaved workers.
Capitalism History
● Finally the third period was from 1865-1920 were the
economic development was growing in an
extraordinary pace in industries and also agriculture
was increasing subsequently in all capitalists forces.
● The second period came between 1790-1865 where
several industries became more organized throughout
capitalist lines and also some parts of agriculture were
lost until the end of the period were agriculture
became a full production market.
● “All capitalist economies are commercialized but not
all commercialized economies are capitalists.”
Continuing Capitalism History
Capitalism in USA in Modern Days
● The current situation over capitalism in the United
States in the point where the government should let
markets get the resources they need, or get the power
from taxation to influence regular market outcomes.
One of the main discussing in the policy and analysis is
the advantages of free governments. This involves the
Cato Institute.
● The Economic Policy Institute is the center of a
thinking programme where the workers with low
income are protected and they can get a benefit from
it.
Continuing Capitalism in Modern Days
● Its objective is to have an amplitude of a public
debate including strategies to make a stable and fair
economy.
● There is also another Foundation called “The Heritage
Foundation” which is another institute that was
created to promote public political talks that can
encourage other people and other governments who
use this for more freedom and a limited government
between countries.
What does capitalism in the US have
to do with indoctrination?
Capitalism is also a great example for
indoctrination. Maybe not in the same way as
communism but they are still trying to make
people like capitalism and prefer it as their
favorite economic system. This is because the
USA has taken everything they can, resources,
money and people, to make them believe it is
the best lifestyle they can have.
Continuing capitalism and
indoctrination
Capitalism has had huge fights between countries like
China because they don't agree with their thinking of the
best system. Unfortunately, this economic system have
also caused many issues around the country. Poverty and
people raising their voices to change the way things are,
but who has the control to decide?...The government
itself. That’s why in my opinion, capitalism is the best
way to have a country set up because you get the
freedom you need, and they don’t make you be something
you don’t want to.
Conclusion between capitalism and
communismOne of the best examples, as said before, of indoctrination is communism.
Many fights between countries have been made because of the differences
between communism and capitalism. China has fought many times against
USA ideologies with capitalism, but what do you think about both economies?
As you can see, In China there is still 99 million people living in poverty, so
even though people are used to communism and living in those conditions, no
one deserves to live like that. Also, girls are still being killed or given in
adoption because they want a bigger man population, as the government says
“It is better to have strong people than weak.” Also, they depend in
everything in the government. It is much less freedom because, yes, everyone
has rights, but they have the exact same rights for the same health care,
money, etc. Everyone receives the same amount of goods and services from
the government.
Continuing conclusion
In the contrary, USA has a stable economy. Yes, it has a lot of debts between
other countries but people are not forced to anything but to pay taxes so they
can have a better life style. Capitalism is an example of much more freedom
because people don’t depend that much in the government. The government
asks for taxes just so their country keeps growing with new resources to make
it a better place to live in.
Either way they both have examples of indoctrination, both are trying to
convince their citizens that their economic system is the best way to live, but
at the end of the day, we think, that every person has the right to say what
they think either if it is against or not their country.
Conclusion Alexandra Gallegos
In my opinion I think Aldous Huxley was right as he was wrong in many things.
Beginning with indoctrination, how the doctors in the factory treated the
clones was completely wrong. You don't have the right to control a person by
making them believe other stuff that you want to. Also, he didn´t change my
way of thinking. Maybe a little but not a huge difference. He changed my way
of thinking of how people can control so much and others can’t even notice.
What he did do was make me think way outside the box. That I don’t have to
generalize everything I feel. An example could be how I said I didn’t like
Islam because they were all terrorists. But one thing I did not take into
consideration is that not every islamic person is a terrorist. I can’t generalize
in something that can be offensive to other people. As well, how people say
Mexico is only formed by burros and sombreros of mariachis. It is an insult to
the religion or/and the country.
Conclusion Alberto Nordmann
I think Aldous Huxley is a genius, I think his way of warning
people of what could happen to society through all this
metaphors and symbols is amazing. After reading the book,
most people would summarize it as a fictional book where
there are clones and Bernard, Watson, whatever. But in this
class, we paid attention to every symbol and metaphor and
tried to connect it to real life. I think it’s amazing how we
don’t notice how this symbols are in our day-to-day life. For
example: Indoctrination in filtered news, consumerism through
propaganda, social classes, etc.
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