I don't think we will ever be in this type of society Huxley talks about but we have made steps toward it. It is no possible for us to completely forget feelings and emotions but our world has been become more controlled over the past years. More and more regulations are being implemented by the government, restricting us from what we can and cannot do. The more rules that are placed in our society the more the people break them. This country was built upon the idea of freedom and slowly one law after another, the government is taking that away from us. In Brave New World, the world state is in full government control and they barely have any freedom. Thankfully, we still have some but we are increasingly taking steps toward that.
Another reason we are similar to the world state Huxley describes in Brave New World is the fact that even if our country hits a hard time it doesn't affect us greatly. Compared to 3rd world countries we float through life so easily and yet we still complain. In the novel, we see some of the characters complain but eventually the hypnosis will kick in and they return to their happy state. We are fortunate enough that our government didn't do that to us, and won't ever be able too.
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