Thursday, September 18, 2014

Is John freer than the world state members?

In a way John is freer, but now as completely free. The reason is because the members of the state in the Brave New World are consciously, methodically, and rationally conditioned. They are also shaped by hypnotic slogans and drugs, as well as peer pressure, and the results markedly limits their thought. John is conditioned by the same sort of forces that shape you and me. He's shaped by prior generations, by the context which he's born, the accident of family and literature. This leaves gapes for freedom. 

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