he Great Depression, Maurice Duplessis made a new law where "anyone who allowed his domicile to be used to propagate communism or Bolshevism ‘by any means whatsoever’ could have it padlocked for up to a year" (Berton, 427). 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.Homer Simpson once said; "God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion". 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). The Big Ben is renamed Big Henry, the crucifix is replaced by the symbol T, and the Charing Cross Rail Road Station in London changes to the Charing T Rocket Station. 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 manipu...
