A theme shared by Brave New World and the article “Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming” is the idea that individuals with a great deal of power will try and deny certain aspects of science in order to promote their opposing ideas. In the novel, Mustapha Mond, a controller, believes that “every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive” and at times must “be treated as a possible enemy.” The most important idea that society believes in is stability, and some aspects of science conflict with its envision of stability. The World State tries to keep this stability by leaving the dangerous part of science unknown to citizens in order for them to be blind to the truth, and keep the concept of anonymity in balance.
