Because all of the new games have to use more equipment than any other games that had already existed. People must use and have man-made products. Mustapha Mond was the stranger that appeared and he is one of the 10 controllers for their world. What does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students?
Mustapha Mond talks about family, mother, father, babies etc which are now words that are unspoken of. Fanny thinks that Lenina has been dating Henry Foster for way too long.
She tries to convince Lenina to have sex with more men. Why must she wear it? She is able to get pregnant which would be the biggest disgrace. Seriously, monogamy was so pre-Ford. Meanwhile, the Controller is discussing… monogamy! Funny how narrative structuring works like that, isn't it? The problem with pre-Ford monogamy, he says, is that it doesn't make sense, because everyone should belong to everyone else this is one of the phrases repeated to sleeping babies, by the way.
Cut to the locker room: Lenina protests that she's only been with Henry four months. It's apparent from Fanny's response that four months is unacceptably long, and Lenina admits that there hasn't been any other man during that time. Fanny reminds her how much the Director is against this sort of thing. We're still bouncing back and forth between these different conversations.
The Controller's argument against monogamy is this: human emotion is like a pipe carrying water. Pierce it once, out comes a massive jet of water.
But pierce it twenty times, and there's only a minor piddling from each hole. It keeps a person stable, he says, to have multiple outlets like this. Back to Fanny, who is pleased to hear that the Director patted Lenina on the behind today. The Controller continues. You need this individual stability because it leads to social stability.
You need the wheels to keep turning, and you need men around to keep turning them. Otherwise, everyone will die. Fanny tells Lenina to be more promiscuous. They both agree wholeheartedly that "everyone belongs to every one else. So let people have everything they want—immediately.
Shorten the interval between desire and consummation. With any luck, you can get rid of emotion altogether! Now we go back to Henry Foster and Bernard Marx. Henry declares that Lenina is a wonderfully "pneumatic" as in, full of emptiness girl—he recommends that the Assistant Director "have her" as soon as possible. Bernard Marx hears this and turns pale. Meanwhile, Lenina says she's getting tired of just Henry anyway—she's starting to get interested in this other guy, Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus.
He has asked her to visit a Savage Reservation with him. But Fanny is concerned because Bernard has a poor reputation. What other name is Our Ford known by? When is this name used? What does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students?
Why is Bernard shunned by most people? Why must she wear it? The Malthusian belt is a contraceptive holder. What is soma? Soma is a type of drug. Fanny warns that Bernard has a bad reputation for spending time alone and is smaller and less confident than other Alphas.
Fanny mentions the rumors that someone might have accidentally injected alcohol into his blood surrogate when he was in the bottle. As the Director and Mustapha Mond explain to the boys how the World State works in an abstract way, the interspliced scenes of Lenina and Bernard show the society in action. Bernard is the sole character to protest—almost silently—the way the system works. His discomfort with the commodification of sex marks him as a misfit.
It comes from a sense that he might never fully belong to that society. In addition to prenatal and postnatal conditioning, the World State controls the behavior of its members through the forces of social conformity and social criticism. Both peers and superiors, like Fanny and the Director, are constantly watching to ensure that each citizen is behaving appropriately.
In his long speech about the history of the World State, Mustapha Mond blames the previously sacred institutions of family, love, motherhood, and marriage for causing social instability in the old society. Individuals cannot always be relied upon to choose the path of most stability since family, love, and marriage produce divided allegiances.
Freely acting individuals must constantly weigh the moral value and the moral consequences of their actions. Mond argues that the divided allegiances of individuals produce social instability. For this reason, the World State has eliminated all traces of non-State institutions. The citizen is socialized to only have an allegiance to the State; personal connections of all sorts are discouraged, and even the desire to develop such connections is conditioned away.
The constant availability of physical satisfaction evident in the feelies, the abundance of soma, the easy attainment of sex through state-sanctioned promiscuity, and the lack of any historical knowledge that might point to an alternate way of life, ensure that the way of life developed and instituted by the World State will not be threatened.
Mustapha Mond and the Director spend a good deal of time discussing the importance of consumption. They are really talking about creating a population that will always want more—a captive market created by conditioning that will want whatever goods the World State produces.
This culture of constant consumption allows the government to act as a supplier, propelling the economy and creating a happy community dependent on its supplier.
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