It is a drug that grants instant satisfaction, stripping people of critical thinking. In fact people in the World State are created to not have independent thoughts; Soma also strips them from conflict but at the price of not being a fully conscious person. “Don’t take that horrible stuff. It’s poison, it’s poison” (Huxley 211) these are the words the Savage yells in hopes that it would lead to a rebel against Soma. However it was done in spite because no one listens and continues because people on Soma don’t understand their own undermined, they have no critical thinking skills to solve this problem or to even realize there is a
It is a drug that grants instant satisfaction, stripping people of critical thinking. In fact people in the World State are created to not have independent thoughts; Soma also strips them from conflict but at the price of not being a fully conscious person. “Don’t take that horrible stuff. It’s poison, it’s poison” (Huxley 211) these are the words the Savage yells in hopes that it would lead to a rebel against Soma. However it was done in spite because no one listens and continues because people on Soma don’t understand their own undermined, they have no critical thinking skills to solve this problem or to even realize there is a