Brave New World

Wow! Well this new world order sure has a strange way of seeing things. Chapter three is a collection of a few different conversations all intertwined which makes it somewhat difficult to read. But if you are able to follow who is speaking it is not bad. "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." This comment seems to be the basis for the brave new world. People need to be ignorant enough to be content in order to keep the wheel turning. If the world is allowed to tend itself then order, stability, and their whole way of life will collapse. 

          In order to stabilize their world they had to rid the world of humanistic qualities; things that allow us to be different from any other species. Family was the main focus to remove. Having a family creates passion, stress, a focus outside of work; so many things that would destabilize the world as they know it. “Home, home- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison, darkness, disease, and smells.” This idea made the students sick to think of family. It was discouraged to be with only one other person because of similar reasons. Love cannot be stable; however, can you find happiness without it? They did by compensating in massive amounts, and yet there were always people who did not find happiness. They restricted feelings and made desire the main focus of life. If the people remained happy then the work would get done.

          I found it interesting that not only was extreme value put onto Ford, but also Freud. In the present world Freud is studied, but his ideas are more of a laughing matter. They are almost completely falsified, and yet in this new world of reason and science they believe the ideas of man with crazy ideas based on no facts whatsoever.