Today's Lecture

-Utopia didn't originally mean a perfect society but was supposed to connotate that perfection doesn't actually exist (supposed to associate with perfection in a good way because of dystopia)

-Dystopia wasn't coined until 350 years later by John Stewart Mill to contrast with utopia and be an imaginary bad place

-BOTH ARE IMAGINARY

-reification: every culture has it and is used to make an abstract idea something concrete 

- what does it mean for a human to mature?

- Huxley creates social classes so that possibly they know their place in this utopian society to promote order 

- Henry Ford invented assembly line, which is what they use in the factories and thus highly respect him and his philosophies  and don't tell them American history before him