Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Bernard not acting 'infantile" how and why the World State infantilizes its citizens

  1. The World State infantilizes its citizens by allowing them gratification and denying them responsibility.
  2.  It assigns every citizen to a caste and a particular social function before birth.
  3. It encourages its citizens to use soma regularly and to seek instant sexual gratification, and it conditions its citizens to have no identity independent of the World State.
  4. The lifelong process of conditioning socializes the citizens into infantile dependence on the State through the lures of pleasure, security, and happiness. They are never allowed to make independent moral choices. Instead, these choices are made for them through conditioned, blind obedience to the World State’s moral laws. All of this occurs in the name of stability. 

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