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Community, Identity, Stability
World state motto - control is prioritised
"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
"A gramme is better than a damn."
Lenina - soma form of controlling populations
Everyone belongs to everyone else
Sex - method of control for totalitarian state
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
The world's stable now. People are happy.
Industrialism - system ensures gratification, eliminating desire or dissatisfaction thus maintaining economic and emotional control.
"History is bunk"
Totalitarianism erase the past to prevent people from comparing it to the present.
The people never rebel. Why should they? They're content.
Control is so effective the people have no reason to.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry
John - he rejects artificial happiness and wants the right to feel.
What you need is a gramme of soma
Lenina - soma used to control represents loss of humanity.
Everybody is happy nowadays
Phrase - world states happiness is manufactured