The babies are preset on a course of life even before they take a breath, taking away their freedom to choose their future destinies. Psychological conditioning of Mustapha Mond's society continues after birth. He allows the use of two types of conditioning processes: the Neo-Pavlovian process and hypnopaedia. Harming children both physically and mentally at a young age is a means of conditioning children, which is the Neo-Pavlovian process. "Ending is better than mending" (49) is one example of the many different hypnopaedia phrases in use to condition the children to follow a preset path. These two processes afford Mond to form barriers in the minds of the children so that they are never free to decide for themselves, but are always bound by his instructions. The psychological conditioning limits mental individualism of citizens so that they are never at liberty to decide what they want for themselves. The last example of Mustapha Mond's control over society's individualism is his ability to censor anyone who explores certain illicit ideas. As a young, ambitious scientist, Mustapha Mond has a choice to make; either "to be sent to an island or to be taken on to the Controllers" Council" (227). He throws away his search for understanding and knowledge for power. His weak moral values allow him to "let the science go" (227) for a life of power. Now he censors new and illegal ideas himself. This censorship of ideas forms a barrier in the minds of society, which halts the progression of human quest for knowledge and suppresses the freedom of thought and imagination. Mustapha Mond's dictatorial government destroys the pursuit of knowledge in order to obtain stability within the society.
Even though Mustapha Mond disdains the World State, he supports it because of his desire for stability. The World State does not allow any forms of art, religion, or even science to exist, but Mustapha wants to pursue these fields of knowledge.
