It’s too easy.” …”What you need,” the Savage went on, “is something with tears for a change. Whether ’tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them…But you don’t do either. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with “…reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….” People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to.” Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that’s philosophy. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. “You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. “But isn’t it natural to feel there’s a God?” “You might as well ask if it’s natural to do up one’s trousers with zippers,” said the Controller sarcastically. And then,” he added in a lower tone, “I ate my own wickedness.” “No social stability without individual stability.” “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” “…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.” “All right then,” said the savage defiantly, I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.””Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.” There was a long silence.”I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.” Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” On no account brood over your wrongdoing. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. They just need to drink soma and choose merriment over truth.“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” Sure, human beings are indoctrinated to behave in one way only according to their caste, and the whole State is a system founded on production and consumption, fueled by the consumerist tendencies of its inhabitants yet, they are happy. His demise does, indirectly, prove Mustapha Mond’s point, as, by eliminating “mother, monogamy, and romance” alongside “feeling strongly,” the World State succeeded in creating a stable society where everybody was superficially happy. Eventually, abiding by those feelings causes him to try to purify himself with self-flagellation, which, in an unfortunate turn of events, leads to his madness and suicide. “Mother, monogamy, and romance” are concepts that are reviled in the World State, as is the whole idea of “feeling strongly” however, for John, these are core values, as he is devoted to his mother, and strives for monogamy and romance while still experiencing feelings unfiltered by soma. In Chapter 3, Mustapha Mond explains the history of the World State to a group of boys touring the Hatchery. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?" (Chapter 3) What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the wild jet.
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