Brave New World

In the Brave New World society, values and morals can be perceived as being upside down or flip flopped from what is typical today. They do almost everything opposite of us and think that that is “right.” I believe that this does not mean that their morals are off. They simply have a different set of morals taught to them when they are young. The director states, “the last child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too-all his life.” It is clear that they have strictly implicated ideas in the minds of very young people, and these ideas are remembered through adulthood. Although their morals may seem off to us, they are no better or worse, just different.
The morals set on the people are different than ours in the sense that they are encouraged to never have relationships, feel pain, be unhappy, or be different. All of these facts seem to help further industrialize their society. They are only encouraged to consume or produce and nothing in between. Babies are manufactured to either be stupid or smart. That way everyone is happy. They are trained to like and dislike certain things, all so that the machine of society an keep turning smoothly.
Family is one thing that is greatly manipulated to keep society “growing.” There is not family. The people cringe at the words mother and romance. They do not have their own children or parents. This way there is less sadness, pain, and people are more likely to concentrate on work. Monogamy is also highly frowned upon. People are beyond encouraged to date as many people as possible. This helps keep the family out of their society. With out family and relationships feelings go out the window. Simple desires are still recognized, but there ultimately is not kind of stress put on the people because they have nothing worth stressing about.