Technolopy

    The idea of technocracy is basically the idea that religion, tradition, and social customs are not what drive our society today. Rather we are driven to invent and create better technolgy and keep improving on it. Richard Arkwright was one of the first, and most famous, people to practice technocracy. He did this by "training workers, mostly children, to conform to the regular celerity of the machine." he would eventually own 20 factories by doing this and was "knighted" by a grateful nation. Technocracy is the basis of technolopy which is basically a "totalitarian technocracy" according to Postman. Technolopy is almost what the people in Brave New World  are living. Their society is based on inventing and imroving on those inventions to create a technology driven society. They think that this kind of society is better and more futuristic, but it is really destroying them.
    In the chapter, it says that in technocracy "people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers". This shows that people in this kind of society, the society of Brave New World, are expected to love technology and have a desire to imrove it and make it better which they think will make a better society. Technolopy is an idea that seems very dangerous, but is seeming more real as we read Brave New World and as we look at our own world.