False Happiness
Aldous Huxley states that if there were no disease, no physical or mental pain
the world would be stable, and everything would be perfect and run smoothly. With
inventions such as soma, and conditioning along with preventing any instability, they
know the world of Utopia to be perfect. When something seems perfect, understanding
the reason behind it, is sometimes difficult. False impressions are used to make the
people believe they are happy.
A primary example of false happiness is the conditioning the children received at
all times of the day and night. Sleep teaching, Death, and Neo-Pavlovian conditioning
were all methods used. These procedures brainwashed the children into believing they
were truly happy. In reality they couldn't think for themselves, and they just believed
what they had been told. For example if the children that were going through the
conditioning were Betas they would hear things such as "Alpha children wear grey. They
work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm glad I'm a Beta,
because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better then 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..." The effects of conditioning made the children believe that they were better off
being themselves than anyone else. That way they could not wish they were any better
because they believed that they were already the best.
The Utopians rely on a simple pill of soma to take their minds off reality. Soma
was an escape from where they really were, and what was really happening. They always
pushed Soma on the people. After a long day at work they gave the workers their daily...