![]() ![]() ![]() But through Bernard, Helmholtz, the Savage, and even Mustapha Mond, Brave New World poses the question: at what cost does this happiness come? What gets lost when every one of an individual's desires is immediately met? The novel's answer is that the satisfaction of every desire creates a superficial and infantile happiness that creates stability by eliminating deep thought, new ideas, and strong passions. All three methods are successful: in the World State, almost everybody really does seem to be happy all the time. And third, whatever sadness slips through the cracks can be brushed away by using soma, a drug with no side-effects that gives the user a pleasant high and makes all worries dissolve away. Second, through the promotion of promiscuous sex as virtuous and the elimination of families or any long-term relationship, the government ensures that no one will ever face intense and unreciprocated emotional or sexual desire. First, psychological conditioning is used to ensure that each citizen is not only suited to their job and role, but actually prefers that role to anything else. This universal "happiness" is achieved in three ways. ![]() In order to maintain its stability, the World State in Brave New World ensures that all its citizens get exactly what they want all the time. This satisfaction of desire, the person would believe, would make them happy. If someone were given the choice between getting what they wanted and not getting what they wanted, they'd probably choose the first option every time. ![]()
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