CHAPTER 2: BRAVE NEW WORLD
They made the babies afraid of books and botany using electric shocks, so that they would avoid those books. These people made them scared of roses so that they hate nature because when they let them love nature they would only purchase transportation so that they go to nature but the found that was all that they were buying so instead they made people like sports so that they buy more things than just transportation. The people in this foundation adopt many different technique to raise (brainwash) kids so that they are ready to do their part for society. The sad or terrifying thing that is so bad about this is that they use these technique to condition people to believe in certain things; to look down upon the ones who are lesser, yet appreciate the people that are at a higher status. Along with this teaching they also produce dumb children and smart children on purpose so these roles and abilities they get from them are not something they chose but rather something they are born and raised into without their choice, or, better stated, without the idea of having that choice and accepting the person they were created to be. They are raised to think a certain way from birth which makes each person predictable and they are ok with it. I don't know if they understand that, but they don't seem to mind. And all this process is headed by the state so the state gets to decide what people are supposed to believe and feel.
This is pretty astonishing. I hope that things won't reach this point but I also hope that they are not that way now either. These methods that Huxley describes can be seen as something that tyrants would be able to easily use especially with the direction society has been headed and I fear that one day this may be the reality. It makes me wonder if the transition to this society was ever seen by the people of this world and if not did they try to fight back?
Huxley's methods to describe all this are bland and straight forward. It's meant to bore you in a way, but that might be the point. All the details are tedious but essential in showing that every point of this society is well planned out and organized and stable and perfect and perfect and in balance, with peace in society and all this is boring. Chaos does not exist and this is what makes books and life interesting, but that is not how this book is supposed to be at least not yet/ B.F. Skinner


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