pha was the highest class (think rocket scientist,) and Elipson was the lowest class (think gas station attendant.) These babies are not born of a mothers womb, but decanted (unbottled.) They receive more conditioning and undergo hypnopaedia a sleep teaching process where beliefs are inserted into their thoughts. Young children as young as seven years old are encouraged to be promiscuous and experiment with sex. They are practicing for their roles as adults in the new world. Of the females decanted, 70% are sterile freemartians. The other 30% are fertile, but adhere to a strict policy of birth control. The only reason so many are fertile is because they are living egg donors. To be pregnant is considered smutty and disgusting, and many new worlders do not even know what parents are. If this is not playing God, I do not know what is.It is ironic that today what we regard so highly could possibly someday eradicate our personal freedoms. I believe Huxley, the author, intended to share a prophecy with us all: science run amuck will cost mankind its humanity in the end. The most striking parallel Huxley makes is to cloning: he was well ahead of his time... When this novel was written in the 1930s, cloning humans was not even a possibility. Between then and now, technology has exploded, growing by leaps and bounds. As we all saw in 1998 with Dolly the sheep, cloning is possible. Huxley had foresight into what may just happen if humans continue to play God. There is a fine line where science can cross too far, where it hurts more than helps. The World State has crossed that line, and I believe they sacrificed their humanity in the process. We living in an era of nuclear and biological weaponry should take heed....
