Brave New World
Published:
- Four steps to establishing and propagandizing a stable servitude to the masses:
- Improving techniques of suggestion/conformity through infant conditioning and drugs
- Developing a science of human differences to enable administrative managers to assign individuals in their proper place of the social and economic hierarchy
- Since even in utopias people will want a break from its numbness, a substitute for alcohols and narcotics that are both less harmful and more pleasurable than the formers
- A system of eugenics to standardize human product and thus facilitate the task of administrative managers.
- “There are already certain American cities in which the number of divorces is equal to the number of marriages. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for a period of twelve months, with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.”
- “…roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.”
“Thenceforward she remained in her little room on the thirty-seventh floor of Bernard’s apartment house, in bed, with the radio and television always on, and the patchouli tap just dripping, and the soma tablets within reach of her hand - there she remained; and yet wasn’t there at all, was all the time away, infinitely far away, on holiday; on holiday in some other world, where the music of the radio was a laby» rinth of sonorous colours, a sliding, palpitating labyrinth, that led (by what beautifully inevitable windings) to a bright centre of absolute conviction; where the dancing images of the television box were the performers in some indori ably delicious all-singing feely; where the dripping patches, was nore than scent - was the sun, was a million sexophoy mora Pope making love, only much more so, incomparably more, and without end.”
- Social media prophesied.
- “The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.”