1. If they want to be a happy member of this society, the less they know, the better.
2. As we all know, the details make virtue and happiness, and knowing the overall situation is the necessary intellectual condition for the failure of evil virtue.
3. The backbone of society is not philosophers, but joiners and stamp collectors.
4. Pokanovsky program is one of the main tools for social stability!
5. Our Fudi, or our Freud-for some mysterious reason, he prefers to be called Freud when talking about psychological problems. Our Freud was the first person to expose the terrible dangers of family life. The world is full of fathers, so it is full of pain; The world is full of mothers, so it is full of depravity, from sadism to stubborn loyalty; The world is full of brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, so it is full of madness and suicide.
6. Family, monogamy, love affairs, all of which are exclusive, are the venting of a narrow impulse and strength.
7. Mother, monogamy, affair. The fountain spouted high, foaming violently. A strong desire has only one outlet. My love, my baby, no wonder those poor pre-modern people are so crazy, so evil and so miserable. Their world does not allow them to treat things easily, to be rational, to be kind and happy. Because mothers and lovers, because they are forbidden to do things in advance, because of temptation and lonely regret, because of all diseases and endless pain, because of all kinds of uncertainty and poverty, they have to feel this feeling strongly, strongly (strongly, what else can they do in solitude and despair), how can they be stable?
8. When the impulse is suppressed, it will overflow. The flood is emotion, passion and even madness. The strength of a flood depends on the strength of the current, as well as the height and strength of obstacles. The unimpeded stream flows into the river calmly along the established canal, which is its quiet end.
9. Emotion hides in the gap between desire and satisfaction, shortening this gap and breaking all ancient and unnecessary obstacles.
1. Stability is the most primitive and ultimate need. Stability is everything.
11. "Henry and I have only been dating for four months."
"It's only been 4 months! I like it when you say that, and besides, it has always been Henry, and there is no one else, isn't it? "
"Yes, there is no one else, and I really don't understand why there is someone else."
"Oh, I just don't understand why there is someone else. Really, I really think you should be careful. It's not good to keep dating a man. If you're 4, or 3, it's not that bad. But at your age, Lenina! No, it's really not good, and you know how much the director of the incubation and control center is opposed to any strong or long-term feelings or things. I have been dating Henry Foster for four months, and there are no other men. Why? If he knew, he would be furious,,,,,, "
12." It is better to throw away than to mend. The more patches, the less wealth,,,,, "
13." Bernard! How can you? "
"how can I? No, the real question is: why can't I? Perhaps more accurately, because after all, I know very well why I can't, what if I can, what if I am free, and what if I am not bound by the conditions. "
"No, Bernard, what you are saying now is really terrible."
"Don't you want to be free, Lenina?"
"I don't know what you mean. I am free now, very free and have a good time. Everyone is happy now. "
"Yes, everyone is happy now. Our children told them that when they were five years old, but don't you want to be free and happy in other ways? Lenina. For example, in your own way, not in anyone else's way. "
14. Everyone belongs to everyone.
15. If a person is different, he is doomed to be lonely.
16. Ah, the beautiful new world, there are such people in it!
17. Compared with the excessive compensation for pain, true happiness certainly looks despicable. Of course, stability doesn't look as spectacular as instability. Satisfaction has never been as charming as the appearance of resisting suffering, nor as vivid as resisting temptation or being defeated by passion or doubt. Happiness is never luxurious.
18. Every new discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, and even science itself is sometimes regarded as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.
19. Science is another factor that damages stability. Not only is art incompatible with happiness, but science and happiness are also incompatible. Science is dangerous because we have to strictly control it, put on a halter and add chains.
2. Whenever the masses hold political power, happiness will be put in the first place, not truth and beauty.
21. Aging is one of the most terrible diseases.
22. Religious sentiment can make up for all our shortcomings. But we have nothing to make up for. Religious sentiment is unnecessary. Why should we look for a substitute for youth and desire when they will never be frustrated? Why do we have to find a substitute for recreation when we are constantly getting pleasure from ancient follies? When our body and mind have been happy in activities, what is the need for us to find other comfort? When we have social order, why is it necessary for us to look for unchangeable things?
23. Chastity means passion and neurasthenia. Passion and neurasthenia mean instability, and instability means the end of civilization. There is no lasting civilization without the crime of happiness.
24. There is absolutely no need for noble behavior and heroism in civilization. These things are symptoms of political incompetence. In a well-organized society like ours, no one has the opportunity to act nobly or heroically. The situation will tend to be chaotic before that opportunity comes. Only where there is a war to fight, a belief to be loyal, a temptation to resist, and a lover to protect, noble behavior and heroism are meaningful. But now there is no war, and the biggest problem is to prevent you from loving someone too much. There is no loyalty of different faiths here. You accept the settings to keep you within the rules, and what you should do is very pleasant on the whole. So many natural impulses are allowed to vent freely, not to mention the temptation to resist. If something unpleasant happens due to some unfortunate accident, there will be a holiday for you to get away from reality.
25. You eliminated them. Yes, get rid of all unpleasant things instead of learning to put up with them.
26. "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin. "
"In fact, you are asking for the right to be unhappy."
"that's right, I just want the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to be old, ugly and weak; The right to syphilis and cancer; The right to hunger; Dirty and filthy rights; Always worrying about the right of tomorrow; The right to typhoid fever; The right to be tortured by all kinds of unspeakable pain. I want all this. "
aldous huxley reasoned that human beings have realized the great productivity brought by science, enjoyed the rich material products produced by the assembly line, and at the same time discovered the fragility of this lifestyle. All kinds of unstable factors in human society-from war turmoil to lovelorn illness-will affect material production, which will lead to chaos and retrogression in human society to varying degrees. Therefore, it is necessary to eliminate these unstable factors in order to ensure the stability and prosperity of society, ensure the continuous production of various substances and realize the happiness of mankind.
The designers of "Brave New World" realize that the foundation of transforming society lies in transforming people. The previous social revolutions did not achieve much because they did not completely transform people. "Brave New World" will use advanced science and technology to completely transform people in four aspects.
(1) Put an end to babies with birth defects and establish a foolproof eugenic system. People's production adopts standardized industrial processes. The birthplace of human beings is no longer a hospital obstetrics and gynecology department, but a "human incubation center" similar to an advanced farm. In order to prevent parents' bad genes from being passed on to newborns, viviparous birth is cancelled. People are created directly in the incubation workshop, and they only contain excellent genes, and all genes that are unfavorable to social stability and prosperity will be removed.
(2) Not all work needs high-quality people to complete. If a talented person is allowed to do a low-level job, he is bound to feel very painful, which has laid a hidden danger for social instability. The work of inferior people can only be done by inferior people, because they won't feel sacrificed. Therefore, it is inevitable to identify and classify people. The identification work begins from the embryonic period, and different grades of embryos will receive different cultures, and the differences between embryos will be strengthened by various means to meet the needs of different positions in the future. For example, in the later stage of embryonic development, the lower the level of embryos, the less oxygen is supplied, and the brain is the first to be affected, and then the bones, thus ensuring that these embryos are inferior both intellectually and physically.
(3) It is far from enough to classify people. Everyone must be reassured to accept, love and be loyal to their grades, so as to avoid conflicts between grades. This must be achieved by publicity and education. In the "Brave New World", everyone is taught carefully from infancy. Even when sleeping, there will be a speaker pointed at your ear, whispering and inculcating various dogmas. Once people accept the social reality ideologically and think that everything that happens is reasonable, they will not have the conscious motivation to improve the society, then more than half of the factors of social instability will be eliminated.
(4) People still have a lot of troubles and pains in their daily life, and we must find ways to eliminate them. There are two common troubles, one is sexual depression, and the other is aging. Sexual repression is the enemy of human social stability. In order to make everyone's sexual desire fully satisfied and released, "Brave New World" advocates sexual intercourse, and there is no longer a husband-and-wife relationship between men and women, but only sexual intercourse. As for conquering aging, it's not because we want to ensure the health of the elderly, but because the elderly always like to retreat passively, believe in religion, and muddle along by reading and thinking. They will think ",which is a potential threat to social stability. Therefore, we must "give them health care, prevent them from getting sick, artificially maintain their endocrine, and give them young people's blood like young people to ensure their metabolism is always active." So they won't get old. "
In addition, "Brave New World" also provides a safe anesthetic called soma, which "has all the benefits of Christianity and alcohol, but has no disadvantages of both". Once all kinds of troubles occur, as long as you take this medicine, you will immediately fall asleep and forget all the unpleasant things when you wake up.
The designers of "Brave New World" understand that the key to social stability lies in controlling people's thoughts. Freedom of thought is the greatest threat. The emergence of new ideological trends is often a prelude to social revolution. Allowing a person to think freely and get in touch with all kinds of thoughts will be extremely destructive. Therefore, freedom of thought is not allowed in the "new world", because the side effects of this freedom are too great, which may destroy the material that human beings are fortunate to create. In the "brave new world", all kinds of harmful thoughts are excluded like germs. People no longer need religion, because there is nothing to bless and pray for, and people no longer believe in God, but instead believe in Henry Ford. The country takes pleasure and recreation as substitutes for thought, and the blank of thought is filled by all kinds of entertainment and sensory stimulation.
At this point, what kind of world "Brave New World" is, everyone will know at a glance. This is an extremely prosperous world and a world with extremely humble personal status. Man has lost the function of thought, but only exists as a vassal of society. Social wealth is not only the object of people's enjoyment, but also the master of people's service. Happiness was originally a purpose pursued by life, but now it has turned into a shackle of people, which can't help but arouse our deep thinking.
When Huxley wrote this novel, the scientific explosion of the 2th century had just begun. Seventy years later, many predictions in the novel have been realized (such as cloning technology), and some development of human society seems to be moving in the direction of the novel. Maybe we can't say what an ideal society should be like now, but at least Brave New World provides us with a counterexample of what an ideal society might be like.
For such a society, despite its many benefits, our answer is still the same as that of "barbarian" (referring to people from outside the "brave new world") in the book:
"I don't need to be comfortable. I need God, I need poetry, I need real danger, I need freedom, I need goodness and I need sin. "
"In fact, what you are asking for is the right to suffer."
"Well," the savage challenged, "I demand the right to suffer now."
"You haven't said the right to ask for aging, ugliness and impotence; Claim the right to suffer from syphilis and cancer; The right to demand food scarcity; The right to be boring; Ask for the right to always be afraid of what will happen tomorrow. The right to ask for typhoid fever; The right to be tortured by all kinds of unspeakable pain. "
a long silence.
"I demand all this." Said the savage at last.