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Are we going to destroy the things we love? Are we left to choose between chaos and madness? "Brave New World" imagines the future society of the 26th century AD. There, human beings are divided into several "castes" and are produced in batches in industrialized nurseries. After unified education and training, they complete fixed jobs and consume according to their pre-set identities. There, everyone is in their own place, happy and contented, and everything that humans have dreamed of for hundreds of years seems to have come true. However, one day, someone finally discovered that we do not need such comfort. We need poetry, we need real danger, we need freedom, we need good, we need evil... "Brave New World" was written by Aldous Huxley. It is one of the most classic dystopian literature in the twentieth century. It is called "dystopia" together with George Orwell's "1984" and Zamyatin's "Us". It has a profound influence on the ideological circles at home and abroad. Citing extensive knowledge of biology and psychology, it depicts the fictional society of 632 Ford Era, that is, 2532 AD. This is a society where people are controlled from birth to death. In this "brave new world", due to the development of social and biological control technology, human beings have become dolls in the hands of monopoly genetic companies and politicians. This domination even begins at the genetic and fetal stage. This is a society with classes and social division of labor. Human beings are incubated under genetic control and divided into five classes, each engaged in social activities of different natures. People are accustomed to whatever job they are engaged in, and regard harsh living and working environments and extremely high work intensity as happiness. Therefore, this is a happy society, and this happiness can also correct people's thinking through human intervention such as hypnosis. The state also distributes a psychoanaesthetic drug called Soma to make people forget all unpleasant things.