A Brave New World Chapter Summary

In chapter one, The Director's tone makes the World State sound like a utopia- the perfect world. However, as you continue reading, you realize the society they have created is more dystopian- a world where no one is an individual and through technology, the government is very powerful. I felt the World States motto- "Community, Identity, Stability" (Huxley, 1), was ironic because the people in this community don't have an identity since they are conditioned to act, feel, and think a certain way. None of the people in the World State will ever have any individuality or an identity because each person is conditioned to behave exactly like the next. Through conditioning, the World State "makes people like their inescapable social destiny" (Huxley, 16). By making people "like" what they were made to do keeps the people from retaliating against the Government. I thought this was an interesting quote by the Director because you can't really "condition" someone to be truly happy.
However, if the people were only conditioned to do one thing, they wouldn’t be useful for anything else. I think this could be an example supply and demand. In a way, the World State is programming human beings to meet the needs of their community. It seems like they determine how many people of each caste
There was also this thing called God” (Huxley, 53). He then went on to explain how they had created a drug called Soma that had, “all of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects (Huxley, 54). Also, when the people of the World State refer to Ford as “Our Ford” (Huxley, 52), it seems like an imitation of “Our Lord”. This could also relate back to when The Director made the “sign of the T,” on his stomach to worship Ford just like we make the sign of the cross to worship our