Brave New World

Kyle Hardie
ENGL1101 sec DDD
Mrs. Steffen
27 October 2001


Conditioning

Imagine being asked the question, "What do you want to eat?” and
spontaneously responding for a hamburger without being able to contemplate between the
Mushroom Melt Burger and the Chicken Gratella Sandwich. Usually taken for granted,
each individual in our society is capable of making this miniscule decision. In Huxley's
Brave New World, excessive government control leads to the elimination of choice
from each individual by scientific procedures such as psychological and physical
conditioning. Consequently, the society in this Brave New World looses all uniqueness
and individuality due to their overpowering government.
"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social
destiny,"(Huxley,16) states the Director of this futuristic dictatorship. Attempting to
optimize efficiency, this futuristic government utilizes conditioning to force the ...