Due to my current position as resident World
controller of Western Europe, a privilege shared only by a group of 10, I
have legal access to these papers in order to preserve the glory of the World
State's Empire. All is good, for the people are happy, they are stable and the
caste system keeps everything running. We have soma for complete relaxation and
forgetfulness, with no aftereffects, and hypnopedia (sleep-teaching) makes sure
that everyone, from Alphas down to Epsilons are happy with their current position.
The World State is so good, and omnipresent, that the entire world has access
to these methods. Except, of course, the islands. For the natives that refused
to give up their own customs, the benevolent World State shows mercy, and
allows them islands of their own.
It's funny though. Being around for a while, with
access to the papers and documents pre-Revolution, I have discovered something
quite strange. If our great society was around a few hundred years ago, our
ideals would be shunned and cast away. People actually believed that a massive
population of individuals would be a good idea. With all those people, plenty
of them would be criminals and anarchists, causing terror into those that
believed otherwise. This is why Ford is so much better than God. With God, you
had to seek solitude and pray, expose yourself and all of your flaws. Ford
offers none of these pressures. Just relax, be yourself, and go with the rest
of the flow of people. Ford does not condone self-sacrifice or repenting.
If these people of the past were correct, they
missed a huge part of the truth. Men are made to flourish. We have over the
millennia, using our brains and intuition. The only time men work backwards is
when we oppose ourselves. Humans would have been much more advanced if there
had been no wars over the years. So, in order to stop us from working
backwards, we created a society in which there were no wars, and everyone was
satisfied. If you are calling this a horror, this is the only path of man.
Therefore, for there to truly be peace, man must be gone. But this is so
obviously not true, for it was men who wrote those words.
I think, from this journal entry, it shows Mustapha Mond's character. He
is quite intelligent in terms of cleverness, but is blinded by his addiction to
social stability. His thinks so highly of it that even with all of his
intelligence, he still holds a bias. However, he still sees the point the
protagonists try to make, but claims that people don’t want to live life to the
fullest, instead they prefer to be safe and guarded.
I think he is an important part because he makes the decision to exile
them, providing the basis for the ending (John hanging himself) and also
because he represents a smart perspective of the World State’s views. He show
the logic in the principles of decanting and such, and the argument is finished
when he asks John if he claims the right to be affected by natural disasters,
family grief, and disease, in which John says “I claim them all.) So in a way,
he kind of is like a modern human that agrees with the World State.
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