It’s a world that has no place for thinkers and dreamers as well as for art, science, and culture. Huxley’s world is inhabited by generations of empty-headed individuals who never grow old, get sick, or reach emotional maturity. One of the ways to achieve this is to give everyone a drug called soma, which makes one mindlessly happy. To keep things this way, society makes sure they are as busy and distracted as possible. Since all people are conditioned into this mentality from birth, everyone is perfectly comfortable and happy in their ignorance.
All they care about is the never-ending entertainment. People get together just to have fun and sex – emotional connections between them are nonexistent. The very concept of family or mothership is considered offensive and inappropriate. All children are born through artificial reproduction, and thus, people are raised in castes, not families. 'You're welcome,' he said.The dystopian society described in Aldous Huxley’s book is based on mindless consumerism, the caste system, and heavy social conditioning. I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer, the right to have too little to eat the right to be lousy the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness.
'We prefer to do things comfortably.'īut I don't want comfort. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconvenience.' It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. It's one of the conditions of perfect health. What?' questioned the Savage, uncomprehending. 'Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.'
There's a great deal in it,' the Controller replied. “Isn't there something in living dangerously?'
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