Drafts at November 2024 | Social Commentary: Our Not-so Brave New World

Our Not-so Brave New World

©2018 Vernon Miles Kerr, VermonMilesKerr.com

Humanity’s  very-recent advances in Medicine, Science, the Internet—and the bewildering array of consumer gewgaws and doo-dads suddenly available—seem to point to an amazing future ahead. We seem to be looking at a Brave New World, with all the advantages and few of the suffocating societal disadvantages of Aldous Huxley’s dark vision.  Yes, barring a climate-changing planetary-melt down or an asteroid-strike, our future looks to be dazzling—from a material standpoint.  But will it be a brave new world, or just a new-ish world?

In most human cultures, Bravery is one of those