Review for Monday, March 12

Well.. class began with me reading my extremely long and twice typed blog from Damnation Street. Divina followed with her review. Then we moved on to the enigma that is Brave New World...

This book gives a warning about automation. 1932 was when Henry Ford came out with the Model T and the assembly line, and Huxley is warning against letting machines do all our work. We got off on a tangent about breast feeding and C-sections, about how when the process first came out, people used them because science said to. It's like people get carried away with doing things scientifically, just because they can. We talked about the Hatchery & Conditioning Center, and the different processes that developed the babies, and how different chemicals and conditions were applied to different embryos to condition them for different castes. Some vocab questions came up, mainly free martins (which is an actual word) meaning a female who can't reproduce. Pneumatic in this story is a compliment, but also refers to something being full of air, again a reference to Ford (tires). The last thing we talked about was the different castes of the people in the story. The one that raises the most questions is the Beta caste, because we're not sure who they are by what they wear. The Alphas wear grey. We also established that Alphas and Betas do not undergo the Bokanovsky process. Back to the color-coding system, Gammas wear green, Deltas wear khaki, and Epsilons wear black.

That was basically it for class. We need to have our re-typed Meyers-Briggs profile for today. And now we venture onward...