Technopoly

To be completely honest, before reading the chapter from Neil Postman's book I had no idea what Technoply and Technocracy was until after just reading the chapter. On the second page of the chapter he defines technocracy as, " A society only loosely controlled by social custom and religious tradition and driven by the impulse to invent- the "unseen hand". Immediately I thought about how closely that describes the world that Lenina and Bernard live in, minus the religious traditions. They live in a society with little to no formal traditions, and they're main drive is to improve their technology to produce as many sets of fertilized workers as they can. Not only for the benefit to improve their world but they are in a race with other countries. However technocracy can just as easily relate to Brave New World as well. Technocracy is full of promise of progress and advancing technology. Technocracy, "filled the air with promise of new freedoms and new forms of social organization." The way that technocracy is defined sounds like Bernard's dream. He is anxious to know what "freedom" is, and what it really means, if Bernard were trying to rally up a bunch of his people to try and fight the system of technoply that they are living in, I could see his campaign slogan, "Promise of Freedom and new Social Organization." However both technoply and technocracy both have similarities in the way the Brave New World is run. Technoply is loosely based on traditions, and even though Brave New World doesn't have formal traditions they are driven by the "unseen hand." Although the workers in Brave New World aren't considered to be free and have freedom they do want to progress and advance technology. Postman says that technocracy, "Speeded up the world,  We could get to places faster, do things faster, accomplish more in a shorter time, and technology could triumph." To the Director and D.H.C. in Brave New World, that is exactly what they are trying to do! They want to progress. They have planes, that is one of the ways they can get around it's faster than a boat. The workers in Brave New World are encouraged to think of new ideas to help advance what they already have, it isn't neccissarly that they want to progress technology for themselves it is simply a contest.