Brave new world quotes

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Community, Identity, Stability

World state motto - control is prioritised

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"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons.

Henry foster Control - controlling every aspect of human life + science and technology - taken over natural birthing to control people

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"A gramme is better than a damn."

Lenina - soma form of controlling populations

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Everyone belongs to everyone else

Sex - method of control for totalitarian state

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Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches

Consumerism - citizens are conditioned to throw away and buy new ones - constant consumption fuels the economy

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The world's stable now. People are happy.

Industrialism - system ensures gratification, eliminating desire or dissatisfaction thus maintaining economic and emotional control.

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"History is bunk"

Totalitarianism erase the past to prevent people from comparing it to the present.

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The people never rebel. Why should they? They're content.

Control is so effective the people have no reason to.

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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry

John - he rejects artificial happiness and wants the right to feel.

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What you need is a gramme of soma

Lenina - soma used to control represents loss of humanity.

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Everybody is happy nowadays

Phrase - world states happiness is manufactured