Grant Morrison is widely known in the comic book world for contributing to both Marvel and DC Comics. He is also the executive producer for Peacock’s series Brave New World. Based on a 1932 novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley, Morrison recently spoke about how the caste system works in today’s world. And what each caste level represents:
“Fortunately, the idea of the caste system is very simple, and Huxley even goes further and color codes everyone, which we didn’t do to quite the same extent. But I think it’s pretty easy to understand the basic ladder from the alphas down to the Epsilons – it’s pretty easy for everyone to get.”
“We can understand in terms of our own culture, the Alphas are the brainboxes and the scientists and the politicians, let’s say, and then below that, we have a class of Betas who are almost like the party class. They would be the James Bond girls and the Love Island guys. The Deltas are the kind of white-collar class who do the office work. The Gammas are then the Bob the Builder and Phil the plumber [types], and below that, you have the Epsilons who do the dirty work.
Morrison continued:
“It was really easy to map that onto things that people can see in their own world, where we do have a kind of stratified structure like that, but it isn’t quite as hive-like as Huxley makes it out. It’s a very elegant structure as it is, and I think we can all understand the different levels in a very simple way.”
While Brave New World premiered on Peacock on July 15th. It has also hit Sky One in the UK on October 2nd. Brave New World stars Harry Lloyd, Alden Ehrenreich, and Jessica Brown Findlay. You can check my review for the show here. I highly recommend!
Source: Tech Radar
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