HYDRO74 GIRL WINS!

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HYDRO74 GIRL!
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‘Motherhood is not a Cuss Word’ came not as a direct quote, but rather as a rebellion to a concept posed in the book Brave New World

I have to confess, I love books that mix science fiction, future, and philosophical thought. When Brave New world was required reading for my Freshman year of college I ate up every morsal of the discussion and realized I loved literature.

In BNW utopia was engineered. Those in charge did all they can to eliminate pain from the world. In effort to do so, they would train their people to not love, and not feel intensely for anything. People are designed (they are bred in labs) to fit in to specific caste systems and built for specific jobs. They were brainwashed from an early age that promiscuity is the way to go by hearing the words “everyone belongs to everybody else” in their sleep. Words such as “mother”, “father”, “monogamy”, “romance”, and “family” were primative and repulsive.

In one scene, students were being asked questions about history and they are almost too scared to mention parents because they are brainwashed that these things were of the largest primative disgust.

The professor at one point said the following to his class,

“Just try to realize it,” he said and his voice sent a strange thrill quivering along their diaphrams.” Try to realize what it was like to have a vivapourous (mothers that breed by carrying an embryo) mother.”

That smutty word again. But none of them dreamed this time of smiling. “Try to imagine what ‘living with ones family meant.’” They tried; but obvious without the smallest success. “And do you know what a ‘home’ was?” They shook their heads.
…
“Home, Home-a few small rooms, stifingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”
…
“What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! Maniacally, the mother brooded over her children (HER children).. brooded over them like a cat over its kittens; but a cat that could talk, a cat that could say, ‘My baby, my baby,’ over and over again. ‘my baby, and oh, oh at my breast, the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure! Till at last my baby sleeps, my baby sleeps with a bubble of white milk at the corner of his mouth. My little baby sleeps…”

“Yes,” said Mustapha Mond (the teacher), nodding his head, “you may as well shudder.”

In response to the imaginary society in Brave New Word where the word Mother and actions of a mother brought the utmost disgust, I wrote my sub-title. The sad thing is though there are many flaws in the prophetic nature of this book written in 1932, It is quite shocking at some of the parallels the world dealt with not long after… but I won’t get into a complete book review, especially if you have never read it!

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5 Responses to “HYDRO74 GIRL WINS!”

misi on June 10th, 2007 8:02 pm

I love that book too! Remember they created the utopia by taking Soma? When I hurt my back one time they gave me Soma and it made me smile because of the book.
momlovesbeingathome on June 10th, 2007 8:38 pm

I’m so glad I clicked on your actual blog because I missed the post directing us here! I don’t know how I missed it since I read all my posts through my blog surfer.

Which brings me to my next point - since this is not a wordpress.com blog I can’t add it to my blog surfer so is there a way I can go about getting it without actually clicking on your blog each day to look for posts? (Not that I don’t want to click on it but I’m afraid I’d forget or miss something because I’m so used to just going through my blog surfer.) I would like to know a different way anyway because there are blogs on other formats that I would like to read but can’t bookmark them so I don’t read them. Let me know if you know the answer - otherwise I’ll post the question on my blog.
Mommy Zabs on June 11th, 2007 1:33 am

Misi- I had to take soma once too, I can’t remember when though… but I thought it was halarious that it was called soma. It was quite nice actually I think I’ll ask for it after my next c-section
MLBAH- Glad you found me! I emailed you on doing external RSS feeds.
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Mommy Babble on August 14th, 2007 8:59 pm

I loved Brave New World. On a really philosophical weekend I’ll read Brave New World followed by 1984. They are so completely opposite and yet with so many similar themes.

It’;s the lit. major in me.