Brave New World

With the focus of my project being how governments that completely subjugate their people work and why they work and why the people do not overthrow the government the first outside source that came to mind was Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I read Brave New World last year and it immediately became one of my favorite books of all time. The way the government works in Brave New World is very exact and systematic about everything. Every single person's life is chosen for them before they're even born through genetic modification and manipulating the fetus' predispositions towards what they like and don't like. When they're young the people are trained through twisted exercises that, for example, make them hate books and flowers. There is a rigid class systems based upon intelligence, this class system is absolute; once you're in a class you're set and can't change, not that you had a choice in the first place. Everyone is provided with food and shelter and a job so there isn't much sadness (especially in the lower classes) but any sadness that does show up is dealt with using a drug called soma which is known as the ultimate pleasure drug with all the benefits of many modern drugs with no side effects. Anyone who is smart enough to see through all the soma infused fog and see the actual problems with the world like how art and religion and science have been sacrificed to keep everyone nice and subjugated. Essentially, the reason that the government in Brave New World (which goes across the entire world (without this the government may be likely to fail)) is so successful is because they don't let people think and they use happiness to control the fragile social structure instead of fear like in Nineteen Eighty-Four. When everyone on Earth is ignorant of art, science, religion, traversable social classes, pain, sadness, fear, anger, and jealousy then how would anyone except those who weren't manipulated very much as fetuses/children and given incredible intelligence ever be anything but happy. They've never even felt emotions that aren't happiness.