![]() "You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. The reasoning is that government, not individuals, know best. This is the justification for totalitarian government. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." Mustapha Mond in chapter 3. ![]() "Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. With no God or other divine morals, the past is regarded as backward and detrimental. "History is bunk.": The Director in chapter 3. The priority here is not only that people enjoy themselves, but that the economy also benefits. Like everything else, government controls the games people are allowed to play. Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games.": The Director in chapter 3. "Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. The World Controllers do believe in moral education, but they determine the morals, not God or reason. "Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.": The Director in chapter 2. This is the second major instrument of social stability. The different caste members are conditioned to never yearn for a life other than their own. After genetic engineering, social conditioning is the most important way for the government to enslave its people. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.": The Director in chapter 1. "And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue- liking what you’ve got to do. With the Bokanovsky genetic engineering process, the population is made much easier to manage. This quote underscores the entire idea behind this modern civilization- lack of individuality. "Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!": The Director in chapter 1.
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