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That's the motto of the world state (the whole world is only one state) in the year 632 A.F.1 . In these times the children are no longer born, they are produced. They (for example the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre) take an egg, fertilize it artificially and bokanovskify (bokanovskifying is a process to make nearly hundred twins out of one egg, developed by a man called Bokanovsky) it. And, of course, there are no mothers in this world. The children are produced in a tube, in a bottle. The kids are also predestined when they are in a bottle. The Predestinators can decide if the child will be born as an alpha ( for example politicians or scientists) , a beta, a gamma, a delta or an epsilon ( for example mining workers) . The alphas are the most intelligent people in this world and the epsilons are the dumbest.
You may think that, for example, an epsilon is not happy with his work and the fact of being an epsilon. But that's not true, an epsilon is as happy as an alpha. "People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off ; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or loves to feel strongly about (there's no love, but there is sex "[...] everyone belongs to everyone else" ) ; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. " ( p. 173) .
Soma is a drug that pushes you down, that makes you calm. The people take it when they feel bad or they want to rest. "A gramme is better than a damn2." , "One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments2." What is called a soma- holiday in the book, is when they take soma, lie down in bed and dream of something beautiful. "Take a holiday from reality when ever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." (p. 53)
But it isn't only soma which keeps them happy, their whole thinking is predestined. The principle of sleep teaching or hypnopaedia is used. The children are told the same sentences regularly, while they sleep, again and again. For example: "Alpha children wear grey. They work harder than we do because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta2." ( p. 33) or "But old clothes are beastly, we always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending. Ending is better ... [...] The more stitches, the less riches, the more stitches ... [...] I love new clothes, I love new clothes, I love ... [...]2 ."
The people believe these sentences their whole life without doubting about them, they not even think about whether they're true or false.
In their freetime they can play obstacle golf, watch and feel a feely (a film that you can't only see, you can feel it) or have a man or a woman.
So you see everyone is happy in this world.
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