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The Myopia of Dystopia

system were at birth many human natures are taken away; the controllers act as god and decide who gets what even before birth. One must wonder how a world is equal when it comes to labor? Who gets to decide who becomes a garbage man or a company president? In this society their jobs are chosen before they are decanted from their artificial birth. Society creates different levels of humans so that the lower the class the lower quality of being. Higher classes are not identical for they are made different but are only a small percentage of the total population. The higher class is the one that coordinates society while the true labor backbone comes from the lower classes. To maintain this caste system the administrative upper class must take great efforts to keep happiness and pleasure for the castes groups so they do what they are made to do.Happiness in Brave New World is artificial with roots in conditioning and the company of the drug called soma. All the people in this society go through conditioning; conditioning that takes away free will and judgment. If a certain group has to pick up garbage, that group will love to pick up garbage. There is no room for the individual mind because the conditioning does not allow the mind to mature in its own way, this is why children were decanted and not born. "For you must remember that in those days of gross viviparous reproduction, children were always brought up by their parents and not in State Conditioning Center"(Huxley 23). The happiness that condition brings to the caste works efficiently. However, sometimes this synthetic happiness needs a boost. The higher and lower caste can sometimes see their misery, which is not intended by the controllers, so these people are given soma. Soma, the magical ultra-drug, is what keeps the population content with there daily lives. "What you need is a gram of soma... All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." (Astrachan) Be...

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