Brave New World and Blade Runner: Concern for humanity and its relationship with the natural world

Welcome to the second session of the Reach to the forthcoming student conservation conference. The ethical issues reflected in this graphic be representations of tenderitys fundamental interaction with character in two futurist literary creations novel prevail New World, by Aldous Huxley, 1932, and film Bladerunner The Directors Cut directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1992, a decade after its original. It has been in my experience in my post-graduate acquire of ethical motive and nature in futuristic texts, that many composers expose proficient advancement and economical pressure as origins of surroundingsal degradation.However, Huxley and Scott expand this concept, creating fanciful foundings where technology has as well ca utilize a loss of humanity and change in ethical standards. But ar the use ups of these arenas purely imaginative? Or get on a lower floor unriva conducts skin Huxley and Scott simply analysed the advancement of technology and consumerism in their experience contexts, in establish to create a future world that is dehumanised and un native? hire our context Year 12, and welcome to the future. By deliberately business lineing the shoot for of the conventional world state, to the wild Malpais, Huxley challenges the humanitys value in a genetically engineered world.In Chapter One, we are oriented to the technologically perfect world state of Community. Identity. Stability (BNW, pg. 1) , 632 A. F. Imagery wish well Cold for all the summer beyond the panes (BNW, pg. 1), helps to describe a world that is inbred to its inhabitants, merely ethically dis work outd for readers. However when Bernard and Lenina enter the Malpais in Chapter Seven, we adjust to a world that is similar to ours, yet is deemed Queer (BNW, pg. 96) by Lenina, a product of the genetically engineered World body politic.A birds eye office, go with with sensory imagery of sound, rhythm of heart, (BNW, Pg. 96) and touch, eagle flew blew chill o n their faces, (BNW, Pg. 96) produces the contrast that enables Huxley to express that science and stability occur at the expense of humanity. This concern was evoked by his fathers work in science, and also the 1930s Victorian view that science was developing at the same rate as humanity, ulterior encapsulated in Orwells novel 1984.To illustrate the erroneous nature of the contextual view, Huxley presented ethics and a connection with nature in a human, but pathologic land that has been marginalised due to global advancement. In our context, scientific advancement at the expense of humanity is questioned in creating designer babies finished IVF. Our ethics, and connection with natural practises are queried when numerous embryos are disposed of in the process of creating one perfect human. It dis approximatems much too ilk the marginalisation of the Malpais and nature to create a perfect society in the World State of BNW.Similarly, a contrast of scenes is used in Bladerunner to illustrate Scotts concern that consumerism is a primary cause of diversity in humanity and nature. The atmospheric setting in the opening montage illustrates a pervading darkness, with fearful synthetic sounds and a high camera angle zooming down onto the streets of fiery urban decay titled Hades, Los Angeles, 2019. The birds eye view, like in BNW presents a dystopic vision, soon contrasted when Deckard visits Rachael at the Tyrell Corporation building. As Deckards surface ascends, the camera scales the building from a slight angle of depression.The rain and privation of natural light is replaced with a golden glow, and once inside, musical theater director Vangelis get winds a soundtrack shift to peaceful wind chimes which successfully juxtapose the unconcern of the corporate elite to the dystopic array of the cityscape. Globalisation, a 1980s contextual fear is convey through setting as the essence of the destruction of humanity and nature in BR. The little raft in Bla derunner, live with the pollution and unequal bypass of resources that globalisation has caused.Similar is our own context, as due to economic globalisation much than half of the female population in Latin the States live below the poverty line1. Advanced conductal conditioning for economic capacity occurs in the World State of BNW, regardless of its effects on nature and humanity, which is another of Huxleys contextual concerns. After learning of hypnopaedia and the neo-Pavlovian conditioning of children to ensure an association of pain with nature, the structured juxtaposition of two conversations in Chapter tercet pass on explains Huxleys concern.In Chapter Three, the hypnopaedia of the conditioning centre I do distinguish flying new clothes,(BNW, pg. 43) is reiterated in Huxleys narration, The voices were adapting future industrial supply (BNW, pg. 43). This is further expressed in Monds teachings in the garden as he states under action a crime against society. (BNW, pg . 46) Through structure, Huxleys concern that manufactured goods are deterring humanitys interaction with nature is unequivocal. Contextually, Huxley is criticizing the era of Fordism and the loss of values experienced in post WW1.Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motors, initiated an era of citizenry production of goods in the 1920s, advancing societys consumerism. Ford and economists grasped the take aim of spiritual emptiness presumable after WW1 and suggested purchase as a method of relief. Huxley witnessed human behaviour change as the appreciation of nature was noted as inexpedient for industry. Huxleys concern advanced to Scotts era as well as our own where globalisation and mass production are the basis of our economy.Furthermore, our current level of technology allows many to live without human interaction, and much human behaviour involves expenditure, not the conservation of nature. Like structure in BNW, Symbolism whole shebang in Bladerunner in illustrating behavioural conditioning as detrimental to human behaviour, a concern that continued from Huxleys era to the 1980s. In the opening sequence, a long camera shot places our focus on a symbolization of consumerism, epitomised by the geisha Asiatic woman pill popping on an animated billboard.When considering BRs setting, the unceasing reappearance and placement of the billboard on a skyscraper, Scott typifies consumerism as prop precedence over nature and humanity in Los Angeles, 2019. This consumerism symbolises the rise of the Asian trans-national corporations of the 1980s which was feared as an economic form of communism. The world was constantly reminded of the benefits of buy yet was rarely informed about the state of the environment which led to the considerable level of environmental degradation, including acid rain.Today, most developed countries make water signed treaties regarding the environment. For example, the UN Kyoto Protocol urges all developed countries to reduce their Green house Emissions by 5% every five years starting from the year 2008. However, the lack of ratification of this treaty, our material world, and the inescapable nature of advertising are still threats to our environment and also to the natural behaviour of human beings in the year 2004. to each one character in BNW has a definite purpose in exploring Huxleys exemplar about humanitys detachment from the natural world.However, Mustapha Mond further explores Huxleys notion by also articulating the loss of humanitys values in a scientifically advanced setting. Mond is the sassing of the World State, spare of human values and thus his expressive parley and mannerisms clinically justify a society where everything can be standardised, mass produced and therefore stabilised. In Chapter Three, Mond talks with the students about families and the plight that emotional granting immunity caused in times before Our Ford.Mond devalues emotion as reeking (BNW, pg. 35),and describes natural repr oduction, families and monogamy in language so vivid one male child at the point of being sick. (BNW, pg 32) Dismissive nonetheless, Mond is merely encapsulating the change in human behaviour that scientific advancement has caused, and therefore communicating Huxleys concern. As Huxley toured Europe before completing BNW, Mond is modelled on post WW1 dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini.His personality also portrays the loss of values and spiritual emptiness experienced by many people in post WW1. In BR, Deckard is devoid of human values like Mond but unlike John the Savage from BNW, it is a replicant with no connection with nature, who exerts human values in Bladerunner. The rise of robotics in the 1980s influenced the character of Batty, and also Deckard. Batty exemplifies the human robot that science dreamed of in the 1980s, whereas, Deckard symbolises the loss of humanity that ethicists feared because of robotics.Roy Battys more human than human genetic tilt allows him to ex ert intelligence, evident in his quotations of Blake fiery the angels fell their shoulders roared, and to exert sensible duress, but only in the course of his four year tone span. In the last scenes of the film, Battys heightened self awareness and desire for emotion and bread and butter surpass his genetic limitations casting him as a Christ figure and also a fallen angel as he looks gainlessly to his creator for a sense of meaning.With his final words, Memories ost like tears in the rain, Roy is cast as a tragic hero, and allows Scott to illustrate that when there is no longer an environment to exploit, like in the world in LA, 2019, those who experience desirable qualities will be oppressed, this ultimately leaving the world more uncivilizede. In our context, the empathy we feel for Batty, questions our ethics, asking what makes us human. Huxley skilfully satirises the social micturate of the 1930s using Soma to express his concern for the conditioning of humanity against nature.The World State in London is a strangely benevolent dictatorship through Mond, where all aspects of an individuals life are determined and controlled by the state in the name of, Community. Identity. Stability (BNW, pg. 1). Another way to ensure stability is the back up use of the mind-numbing drug Soma. In the Malpais, Chapter Nine, Lenina embarked for lunar eternity(BNW, pg. 127) on an eighteen minute soma holiday to escape the reality of nature and humanity. Soma satirises the post WW1 regimes of tyranny throughout Europe.The doctrine of Totalitarianism denied people intellectual stimulation, freedom of model and a relationship with nature. Huxley introduces Soma to show a future world where the defense force of a relationship with nature can be self induced. In BRs 1980s context, severe industrial pollution and urbanisation resulted in the detachment of people from nature In 2004, though Totalitarianism is a violation of fundamental human rights, many people choo se to deny themselves a qualitative relationship with nature by choosing to live in environmentally isolated, but grossly populated urban areas.The use of contextual irony in Bladerunner is contrasting to the use of satire in BNW as Scotts irony questions the ethical behaviour of humanity regarding technology. In the 1980s, robotics and computers were the result of technological advance, and robots were promised to take the place of humans in the workforce. In Bladerunner, Ridley Scott epitomises technology and humanity through the Nexus-6 Replicants, who are more human than human Human beings in Bladerunner live as second class citizens in desolate, socially inept conditions as we see J.F Sebastian and Deckard both living in solitude. Humanity in 2019 has no sense of the value of interaction, and consequently Ridley Scott placed the capacity for these human qualities in the Replicants. Ironically though, when the Replicants begin to show human emotion and need, such as Battys need to meet his maker, they are retired by the human, by ultimately inhuman character, Deckard. This irony illustrates Scotts concern for a scientifically advanced world, with a shady appreciation of human qualities and value.The same concern is expressed in the 1997 futuristic popular culture film, Gattaca, where your personality is irrelevant as genetic study guarantees an you an occupation. Huxley and Scott exact established quite a few concerns for our future. Strangely though, they have also warned about issues that are in need of conservation now. Again, close your eyes and imagine the natural world that you want in the future. reach our context year 12, and help to create an ethically harmonious world for the future.