Metaphors Based On Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Neil Postman made six assertions based on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World that varied between being accurate and incorrect when comparing them to today’s contemporary society. Usually one part of an assertion was correct while the rest of it was disagreeable. Neil Postman’s first assertion is that humans will be okay with their disadvantages. His third assertion said we would be given so much that we would be reduced to being passive and narcissistic. His sixth assertion talked about inflicting pleasure to control the
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