“I’m pretty good at inventing phrases- you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you’d sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they’re about something hypnopaedically obvious. “Did you ever feel…as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using – you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?” “Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Pages 35, 36 “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.” “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant.” “Six years later it was being produced commercially. “Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. “But they used to take morphia and cocaine.” “There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.” “There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Pages 33, 35 You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.” The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.” “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. “No social stability without individual stability.” “A love of nature keeps no factories busy.” “That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do.” All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” “And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do. Will the brave new world learn the error of their ways? Or will they remain slaves to their empty pleasures? And people are limited to their planned roles.īut some people are unhappy and question this new world. In this future, people value pleasure more than freedom and individuality.

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