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Brave New World

 

There are no .
             differences. Everyone is brought up to be happy, and most do not even .
             know what sadness or anger is. All is cured artificially through .
             surrogates or drugs. Even happiness alone is not unique to the .
             individual. Soma, the hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is .
             used by all, even induces the same kind of happiness. The only variant .
             is to what extent this happiness overwhelms the user (one or two .
             half-gramme tablets?). "Everybody belongs to everyone .
             else" (127) is the basic psychology of the society. This suggests .
             that an individual owes everything to society, but society in turn .
             owes everything to him or her. This applies to all. No one capitalises .
             on the efforts of others and no one performs excessive manual labour .
             for minimum wage. Everyone is the same. In Huxley's perfect .
             world, sex is a mundane undertaking. It happens to each individual .
             almost every night. And no one knows what marriage is. They simply .
             have each other and move on. All for one and one for all. Everyone is .
             the same in bed. The inhabitants of this society are not given .
             any sort of mental flexibility. If you spend time alone, or think, you .
             are considered strange, and are considered an outcast. Nobody wishes .
             for this, and so correspondingly nobody commits this unspeakable .
             crime. Everyone goes out at night with a different partner, or takes a .
             few grammes of soma and goes to bed for a soma-holiday. Nothing new, .
             nothing different. Each person of this society has a .
             predestined future. They all develop in their fetal stages inside a .
             jar, where they are provided with their needs, are vaccinated against .
             all known diseases. Also, special treatments are performed to aid in .
             the mental growth (or standstill) of the individual after 'birth', .
             according to their future occupation. "The first of a .
             batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was .
             just passing the eleven hundredth metre mark on Rack 3.


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