Guest Blogger: Brennan Arendt

For the past week we have been performing our own Brave New World Plays. We have been looking into various trends that could spiral out of control. At the beginning I thought that it would be difficult to think of modern day trends just like Huxley did but it turned out that there are many different trends now that could lead to dire consequences. My group performed our skit on pollution, but I know that many groups performed skits on technology. It is freighting to think of how much technology could change our lives for the worse. By being so obsessed with new technology people may begin to lose social interaction leading to people hardly ever interacting face to face with each other because they do not know how. The whole point of the skit, I believe, was to show us that many trends can lead to negative impacts later on and we need to be sure to be aware of these negative impacts and to work against them, as well as teaching others that the paths their on could lead to destruction. Last week and this week I also enjoyed watching the plays about the various cabinets. It’s amazing the different jobs that each cabinet has and also how they all work together to try to make America the best place it can be. Another cool thing about these skits was how creative some of our fellow classmates are. They turned what could have been a boring lecture into something entertaining as well as informative.