A love of nature keeps no factories busy. A society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable.

We have the feelies and the scent organ instead. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. This way the men learn more than they would learn in a lonely prison cell. Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. But that’s the price we have to pay for stability. In the end he can even persuade Helmholtz of the advantages of going to an island. So it is easy for him to explain the society’s rules and necessities in a comprehensible way. He is able to put himself into their positions. I think Mond wants to talk to the three men because he has similar ideas like they have. In this way he learned a lot about how the society works and why sth. But instead he took the chance to work on the Controllers‘ Council and became one of the World Controllers. He had nearly been sent to an island because he was strongly interested in science as a younger man. He has forbidden books in his office, knows about religion, Shakespeare and history. Mond himself is a bit different from all the well-conditioned people who always follow the state’s rules. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. Helmholtz, Bernard and John are taken to Mustapha Mond because he is interested in the men’s thinking and view of the world. They just need to drink soma and choose merriment over truth.How do you interpret the fact that the three men are not imprisoned but taken to Mustapha Mond and then discuss ideology and philosophy? True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Sure, human beings are indoctrinated to behave in one way only according to their caste, and the whole State is a system founded on production and consumption, fueled by the consumerist tendencies of its inhabitants yet, they are happy. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value all the rest was secondary and subordinate. His demise does, indirectly, prove Mustapha Mond’s point, as, by eliminating “mother, monogamy, and romance” alongside “feeling strongly,” the World State succeeded in creating a stable society where everybody was superficially happy. Eventually, abiding by those feelings causes him to try to purify himself with self-flagellation, which, in an unfortunate turn of events, leads to his madness and suicide. “Mother, monogamy, and romance” are concepts that are reviled in the World State, as is the whole idea of “feeling strongly” however, for John, these are core values, as he is devoted to his mother, and strives for monogamy and romance while still experiencing feelings unfiltered by soma. In Chapter 3, Mustapha Mond explains the history of the World State to a group of boys touring the Hatchery. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?' (Chapter 3)

Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty cant. 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.

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