For things that cannot be explained, legends, narratives, and myths are created to explain events that are beyond scientific measurement. When an occurrence cannot be quantified or proven, like a belief or the story of an ancient mythological creature, stories answer questions that others have, and these stories can live through many more generations. Cultures create stories that may differ even though they may be about the same subject or person. Determining the way a person acts, such as what qualifies the traits of a student, teacher, or parent cannot be scientifically quantified, therefore people create narratives based upon what they see or what their environment molds these people into.
Lyotard breaks down the barriers of beliefs and narratives that foretell the reason why things happen the way they happen. Postmodernism puts a quantification to everything, destroying these grand narratives that had once been created off mystery and seemingly elderly wisdom. He says that knowledge will cease to exist unless it can be minimized to simply computer knowledge, meaning scientically quantifiable, straight forward, and factual information that does not thrive off of questioning or derive from a story or narrative.
Narratives can marginalize minorities and their discourses because certain narratives have been created through those discourses and have remained within that society of people. Mexican cultures have narratives that explain happenings and situations to children. Even though the ancestors weren't there to see these happenings take place, the narrative makes up for the loss of their presence and that narrative can still be taken for its truth. These stories remain within these communities and, therefore, marginalize them because it has been made a part of their culture.
Computer technology and efficient productivity is the representation of the world and what it is becoming in Brave New World. Lyotard presents the argument that the world will cease to function without this preciseness, though Huxley claims quite the contrary with his satirical exaggeration of this make believe world. These differing opinions, or conspiracies, whichever you prefer, make for a great argument based upon whether imagination and narratives is the DNA of our universe, or if preciseness and efficiency will create a happier, more desirable world to reside in.

Brave New World and its extremities.

Okay, I'm gonna collect all of my thoughts here and spit them out in random order. So.. I guess progress and efficiency has become the central core of a thriving, seemingly and distortedly improved society that has abolished meaning, and I say meaning in the most general connotative form of the word. Before I go into anything else here, let's backtrack a bit.
First of all, what is meaning? What is there to compare to that will aide in defining the meaning of something? In my opinion, meaning is when you declare that an emotion has been brought about by a given event or occurrence. When human emotions are stimulated, meaning is created and can then be used as a comparison to what a meaningful life or meaningful situation is.
In Brave New World, meaning is abolished when emotions are destroyed and time is altered to begin on a certain date, the time Ford was born. With the assembly line the central focus of existence, the satirical exaggeration of what life has evolved into spins out of control and creates an image of productivity and efficiency, which has made "taking in the moment" and slowing down time to reminiss upon times of happiness completely obsolete.
BNW has this twisted conspiracy that happiness is forever cycling, and keeping everyone "happy" is the way life should be..lived? If that could be classified as living. I'm not saying that the way current society, our society, is the correct way to live or that it is the only way to live, but it is what I have to compare to so I'm just gonna run with it here. Every emotion possesses its compliment, happiness and sadness, love and hate, etc. Without the expression of one, the other becomes unknown. Who are these absurd people to define what being happy is if they have never been sad? If events never occur that bring about excitement, smiles, any gesture of derivative of happiness, then how they compare is beyond my realm of understanding here. I feel like I'm ridiculing a world that is not my own, and just because it is not my own, it becomes wrong, which is supposed to make my opinions of them right? I don't see the logic in this, I feel like a 1984 citizen, ridiculing the unknown because I have never immersed myself into someone else's body of water. We as humans are completely subjective regardless of how much we try not to be. Out of instinct, it is who we are and is instilled in our every fiber and strand of DNA. From my perspective, I see family as the sun and all other aspects of one's life the revolving planets that orbit, evenly spaced, creating a solar system that is one's existence. Forget existence actually, it is our life because it possesses meaning. BNW believes family to be the antithesis of society. To have a family means that others, all others in the world, have been excluded from a family's unconditional bonds. These bonds create the barriers between every person that exists in our world. We are walking bubbles, and invading one's bubble is an invasion of morals and family values. BNW has popped all of its bubbles with a giant needle and then used that needle to craft an assembly line that, I guess satisfies, the needs of acceptance by everyone and eliminating any private space or unconditional bonds that one could possibly possess. How this author came up with this is beyond me. Touche.

This ties in with 1984, in my opinion.

I'm not sure if you guys even see my posts when I write them, but I am at least doing my part. I hope I get credit for this.

Anyway, Orwell's novel, 1984, is most likely one of the most twisted and distorted creations to be placed on parchment and printed with ink. Oceania is considerably the epitome of what could happen to our society if we continue to feel the need to reform text books and manipulate history in a way that is tasteful for young readers and our future generation. The totalitarianism is a representation of what our board of education wishes it could be, but the nation has not yet declined to that level of, in my opinion, ignorance. The ignorance of these leaders to want to obliterate what is clearly the genetic makeup of their being, their present, and the shaping of their future will soon destroy any reason for life to make sense, to fit together like a puzzle. With no right or wrong, no true or false, I guess everyone is entitled to believe whatever they choose to believe. Oh wait, Oceania has leaders that make those decisions for them. Freedom will forever be constricted until humanity diminishes into nothingness.

Do this. Take away the tyrannical Big Brother and all of his mindless followers and settle yourself in our society and see what you're left with. In reality, 1984 is correct in saying that if you choose to believe that something is correct, hypothetically it will be correct. What is truth? Who determines what is true? I see that mathematical equations and scientific experiments will give definite answers to a certain extent, but when it comes to life and all of its abstract concepts that float beneath our atmosphere, who then determines what is truth? I could pull any thought from the air and declare some amount of truth to it, however much I may decide, and that will be as complex as it becomes.

"This is not all I have planned today for this class session, we will continue this tomorrow." - David Menendian.