The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.
-Mustapha Mond, the World Controller of Western Europe, on the state of the people in BNW.
This quote is from the World Controller of Wester Europe Mustapha Mond, about the current society. The text-to-world connection was to some countries that, in a time of crisis, have taken to desperate measures in order to create peach. One example would be, a few years ago in China, a group of students went on strike and sat in the middle of a park. The government tolerated this for a few days, but then called in soldiers, armed with guns, to stop the riots. Many people were killed, all in a futile attempt to have their voices heard. The text-to-text connection is, yes again, to the novel 1984 (they are actually quite similar). The voice of authority is explaining to the protagonist, who is a traitor to the state, about how the society is actually a "utopia" (it's obviously not), by saying that there have been no rebellions since the Party took over. Mainly because the Party has ensured the population doesn't take over, through dehumanizing procedures and lack of public resources. The text-to-self connection is a bit more complicated, I can't say any of those things define me.
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