urope writes, after reviewing a book, "…The author’s…conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and…dangerous and potentially subversive…Not to be published …The author will be kept under supervision" (Huxley 160). The censorship of ideas forms a barrier in the citizens’ minds, which halts the progression of human quest for knowledge and suppresses the freedom of thought and imagination. The freedom of belief can be destroyed with a dictatorial government controlling society. Huxley’s Brave New World illustrates how religion can be sacrificed for stability, where religion is no longer needed to satisfy human desire:… why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? What need have we of repose when our minds and bodies continue to delight in activity? Of consolation, when we have soma? Of something immovable, when there is the social order (Huxley 213)?God now "manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren’t there at all" (Huxley 214). By not allowing the citizens to believe in something holy, something beyond imagination, the state is restricting the faith in her citizens and taking away the freedom to dream and believe. Henry Ford is glorified in the world state for his induction of the mass production method and "the introduction of Our Ford’s first T-model … chosen as the opening date of the new era" (Huxley 46). Big Ben is renamed Big Henry, the crucifix is replaced by the symbol T, and Ford is the basis of religion in the world state just as Christ is in many modern religions. The people’s minds can easily be manipulated by the state into believing anything, but the prolonged brainwash of the citizens creates a suppression of creativity, which results to a direct loss of mental freedo...
