8230;all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook,'" (Huxley 232). The new world does not want scientific advances, because advances in science mean changes in society, and thus government. Science also means truths revealed, and it is better that the people stay ignorant. As long as they remain so, they are happy with their present lives, not only non-desiring of change, but unaware that the possibility even exists. The Utopians have also given up family life completely, seen when Mustapha Mond is talking to a young group of boys, "Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands, wives, lovers. There were also monogamy and romance. 'Though you probably don't know what those are,' said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads… 'But every one belongs to every one else,' he concluded, citing the hypnopdic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept…utterly indisputable," (Huxley 39, 40). One of our most sacred establishments has been done away with, all for the purpose of the state motto "Community, Identity, Stability." A normal home environment varies from family to family, with the result of a large variety of personality types, whereas the Utopians need people to be very similar to keep everyone agreeing and happy. Thus, they genetically manufacture all people, conditioning them to their future lives as they grow in a bottle, and immediately beginning brainwashing techniques as soon as they are born to be raised by the state. The state of happiness enjoyed by the Utopians is merely superficial, resolving around gratification of simple desires, and elimination of all possibility for encountering undesirable feelings. Mustapha Mond himself, a ...
