Brave New World viewed as a didactic piece

"It's curious to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to have imagined that it could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't." Mustapha Mond Pg 228
In this book several social and personal issues are brought to the surface. These include genetic moral issues, the limitation of science and art, love vs lust, what happiness and freedom truly are, etc... It also includes several characters that at first glance appear very flat but serve a much greater purpose as examples of the thoughts, actions, and feelings that every person possesses. I think Huxley uses this novel to reveal not only where he thought society was going if it continued to progress in this way, but also what society was like at the present. This book deals with universal issues and almost uses it as both an eye opener and a warning of what life is coming to. It also forces people to see the negative aspects of their personalities and choices by creating characters that are not very likable but extremely relatable. In some aspects it is actually an anti-didactic pieces because it describes the complete opposite of a model of correct behavior. Still it enforces the idea that change is imminent and inevitable and it is up to us what we will make of that change.