Comparison between the Brave New World and present day

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley made many accurate predictions about our world today. He foresaw that business is going to control the modern world, and companies are going to be trying various ways to to get people to spend their money. Huxley foresaw that these companies are going to use sports, manipulation of people’s minds, and their desires to be good looking and attractive to achieve their goals in making profit. All of these predictions are proven to be true by “Stalking the Youth Market”, an article written by John Schwartz.
The first enormous similarity between the world described in the novel and today’s world is the effect of sports on people and the way companies profit from this. In Brave New World sports are used to get people out, to spend their money on equipment, and “increase consumption”. A parallel o...