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Приложение на моделите на Олдъс Хъксли от „Прекрасният нов свят“
The Application of Aldous Huxley’s Models from ‘Brave New World’

Author(s): Yavor I. Rusinov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Brave New World; state education; learned helplessness; demoralization; traditional virtues

Summary/Abstract: This paper links contemporary school education to the warnings in Huxley’s Brave New World. It shows how classrooms—where pupils collect context-free academic facts, sit endless standardized tests, and experience grades as badges of shame or prestige while fear of a „failing mark“ replaces Pavlovian electric shocks—closely resemble Huxley’s instruments for shaping compliant, pleasure-seeking, challenge-averse citizens. Coupled with the moral erosion described by Joseph Unwin and KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, such schooling breeds learned helplessness and leaves young people with no clear purpose.

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