One of the most problematic elements of our world is the decrease in ---loss of self-identities--- the more people conform to corrupted rules of society (authorities?), the fewer are likely to rebel. With the analysis of specific characters in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, one can begin to see precisely how elaborate functions create a negative domino effect.
Thesis: Although the citizens of World State may have physical or personality traits that make them unique, they fail to exercise or emphasize their distinctions in ways that challenges authority/the reigning order. In fact, in order to minimize their differences or divergent desires, most seek forms of avoidance or restraint, namely, the drug soma.
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If people are different, they cannot keep track of everyone or be expecting if anything were to happen.
“As everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the back bone of society.” Majority of the power the World State has over its citizens has to do with intellectual control. The inclination that people should know only a little about the "general idea" is similar to Mustapha's later claim that thinking about the specifics and purpose is a significant threat to society. Big thoughts lead to ideas of God, philosophy, questioning, and curiosity all of which are incompatible with blissful ignorance.
“Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using – you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?” --- "I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the
Thesis: Although the citizens of World State may have physical or personality traits that make them unique, they fail to exercise or emphasize their distinctions in ways that challenges authority/the reigning order. In fact, in order to minimize their differences or divergent desires, most seek forms of avoidance or restraint, namely, the drug soma.
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If people are different, they cannot keep track of everyone or be expecting if anything were to happen.
“As everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the back bone of society.” Majority of the power the World State has over its citizens has to do with intellectual control. The inclination that people should know only a little about the "general idea" is similar to Mustapha's later claim that thinking about the specifics and purpose is a significant threat to society. Big thoughts lead to ideas of God, philosophy, questioning, and curiosity all of which are incompatible with blissful ignorance.
“Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using – you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?” --- "I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the