Q: I would love to live in that world! Who's with me?
A: There were problems with the society. A utopia is perfect and really an unreachable ideal. A dystopia is a failed utopia. In this case, the rules used to create a perfect society also prevented individualist thinking (our means of progress) and discouraged family units (the main reason we seek progress). In effect, the Brave New World was a stagnant society that could only go down from where it was. Other dystopias in fiction include THX 1138, 1984, Farenheit 451, and Logan's Run. Each one is by a different author and each underlines how much we need individualist thinking and family in order to progress. We cannot let the state control our lives.
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