In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
“And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. Some people are bred to be virtual slaves and indoctrinated to accept their status. It also demonstrates the hypocrisy of the World State in which the genetically determined caste system pre-arranges who works and how they are to work. The message demonstrates the programming that people receive under the World State. This is from Chapter 5 where Lenina remembers a hypnopaedic message from her childhood. Things such as family and love are now considered foreign and dangerous ideas which get in the way of the superficial happiness under the World State.
It is Mustapha Mond as he explains how life before the World State consisted of things which distracted people from being happy.
Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy.” No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the wild jet. Literature Guides Brave New World – Quotations and Analysis
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