ct as they are told. Rather than individual parents instilling their own values into their children, the State chooses how and what each child will learn. The parental relationship of a father and mother to a child has become a dirty and improper idea. Feelings have become obsolete. It is this lack of family that helps keep the different classes in their place. They are conditioned to think and act only as a member of their class, rather than as an individual. Things that create problems in society's class structure, such as the desire of parents to want something better for their children, or people striving for something better for themselves, have been eliminated with the family. The children learn nothing, but are conditioned to remember everything they will ever need to know. They receive no education, seeing as how to learn, one must first be able to think for themselves, and that ability is driven out of them at an early age. In essence, a total lack of true self-awareness and freedoms, but when one does not know what one doesn't have, how are they to miss it? This "Brave New World" takes a look at human obsessions with pleasure. In this society there are several quick and easy ways of feeling good. First of all, there is soma, a readily available drug used to escape from reality for a few hours or a few days. The "feelies" are a common form of entertainment. The audience sees, hears, smells, and feels a sort of action-adventure adult movie. Casual sex is a third popular way to spend spare time. Since "everybody belongs to everyone else," commitment is a non-issue. In the Savage reservations, human pleasures are given into, but in a way more alike to that which we do today. They have their alcohols and drugs, though not as refined as those used by the inhabitants of the "Brave New World," they still are just as effective. As for the rest of the human obsessions, they are frowned upon, with the exception of casual sex, though only...
