Brave Old World

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Stability; an admirable goal, but do the means justify the ends? This brave new world isn’t all that brave. It hides behind sex, soma and subordination of the masses to allow a few Alpha members to enjoy the finer parts of progress, whereas the reservation faces all adversity head on, never stopping to enjoy much of anything. There has to be something else a way of life that allows all to develop as humans, yet also allows for the precious stability that gives society the finer parts (soma, music, art and the like) while maintaining all the freedoms associated with both. “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 3): civilization has two of the three, as does the reservation, Perhaps civilizations community and stability can become one with the reservations identity and community allowing for the world state to finally achieve its guiding principle.

Identity is created by suffering, the trails one must endure. The people of civilisation need to suffer, everyone from the lowliest epsilon minus to even the highest alpha plus knows this instinctively. Consider the fact that “Twelve days [after filming] The Savage of Surrey [...]could be seen, heard and felt in every first-class feely-palace in Western Europe” (254), if the people of London truly desired a pain free existence it would have been considered as offensive as motherhood, pornographic to the point of never seeing even the lowest class feely-palaces screens. Instead “The Savage of Surrey” was so highly regarded that it caused hundreds of these happy people to flock to John Savages lighthouse so they could get closer to this suffering that is absent from their lives. This need is more than a matter of merely stimulating the adrenals, if it where they would have just signed up ...

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“Happiness is a hard master” (227) because it demands suffering. Without the pain that is present in a place such as the reservation there can be no happiness. Soma forces a pain free world upon those who are conditioned to be dependent upon it. In order to true happiness to flourish some degree of pain must exist, and that pain must be bared. It is more than mere philosophy, it is a physiological fact that even the most intense and well constructed regime of hypnopӕdic conditioning cannot change. For the sake of the inhabitants of civilisation remove the hypnopӕdic conditioning that forces them to fear suffering and instead go for the nearest gramme of soma, Allow them happiness by allowing them the right to suffer, for the former cannot exist without the latter, and civilisation needs a happiness upon which to base “Community, Identity, Stability” (3) .

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