Palanese culture: far from reality

The people of Pala live nearly perfect lives. Children have multiple families that they can turn to if they are upset with their biological family, or even if they just need a change. They are taught more than just math and science in school; they are taught about different types of personalities and how to deal with each, destiny control, and ways to hypnotize themselves out of feeling pain. There are no corruptions, like TV. Everyone is at peace, and death is accepted by all. It may seem, upon reading Aldous Huxley's Island, that Huxley is simply showing what life would be like in a utopian society. With further examination, however, one can see that he is actually showing that such a society could never really exist. Pala could never be real.
A transformation from today's society to one similar to that of Pala would be, without a doubt, impossible. All the residents of Pala believe in things like "suchness" and the idea that "Good Being is in the knowledge of who in fact one i...