lso, everybody works at a productive trade, and the result is that they get the work done in a six hour work day. "Their working hours are ample to provide not only enough but more than enough of the necessities and even the conveniences of life." Whether it be food, supplies, road conditions, or any other improvementof lifestyle, the amount and setup of work in the society can provide for all these. Because everyone contributes, the amount of work required, per person, is small. "In several of the necessary crafts, their way of life requires less total labor than does that of people elsewhere." In Brave New World, The diversity of social functions within a society is dealt with by the creationof five different classes - Alpha, Beta and so on. There is no friction between the classes however because they are conditioned through sleep teaching to grow up thinking that their genetic inheritance and social positions are ideal. Those in the upper levels of the intellectual strata do not resent their inferiors who they give orders to and those who observe others in a superior position pity their superiors because they carry the encumbrance of responsibility that theirposition frees them from. The goal of all conditioning is, as the Director of Hatcheries is to make “people like their inescapable social destiny.” In order to uphold a state of social stability various methods of social control are used. After birth each person goes through a process of “conditioning” that makes them eagerly seek the pleasures of sex and sport and fearfully avoidnon-social activities that isolate people from each other. Children of the lower caste are conditioned to not like books because they have no practical use for them in their lives. Children learn to fear activities that have no function to their position in the planned state. No citizen is able to express opinions or judgments of their own because this would disrupt the unifor...
