According to Aldus Huxley, solving the problem of
"Making People happy" is really devising a way
to get people to love their servitude. This love for
servitude would take a human revolution of the
mind and body. The Utopia in a Brave New World,
is a society that seems to have found
this love of servitude. Huxley suggests to obtain this one must
first develop scientifically a more
advanced technique of suggestion. In a Brave New World,
this technique is infant
conditioning. This 'brainwashing of ones thoughts begins
in the test tube and ends, at 18. Secondly,
one must be content with, and aware of class distinction.
The conditioning helps with this. Each
child has a predetermined class, then they are conditioned to love
their class and work. Third,
Huxley suggests, society needs to develop a 'safer' for of alcohol,
or narcotics. These drugs aid a
citizen as an anti-depressant might. In a Brave New World,
one simply pops a Soma, and all
the bad thoughts go away. And lastly,
a standard for of the human 'machine.'
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