![]() The Controller speaks to the students of husbands, wives, monogamy, and romance. This is where the tradition of parents and no parents meet. The Controller explains that in the islands off New Guinea, Trobriands felt that conception was from ancestral ghosts. Mustapha Mond, the Controller, tells the students Our Freud felt that family life was full of pitfalls such as miserable fathers, mothers who conjure feelings ranging from sadism to chastity, and siblings and other relatives who promote feelings of madness and suicide. The Controller tells the students the Our Ford liked to be called Our Freud when he explained psychology. The Controller also emphasizes the emotional toll of living as a family took on each family member such as the children feeling suffocated by the attentions of their mother. The students are repulsed at the idea of living in such conditions. He talks to the students about the small, stifling, and overpopulated homes in which people lived. That being said, he has decided to speak to them about human history. First he quotes Our Ford by saying "History is bunk." The Controller feels that all events which occurred before the World State was established should be wiped away. The Controller takes over the discussion on history. Instead of the Director answering them, the Resident Controller for Western Europe, Mustapha Mond, answers, he tells them that it was terrible. The students enquire what the result of this suppressed behavior was. ![]() In the time before Ford, sex was not considered normal until a person was at least 20 years old. He informs them that erotic play was, in the time before Ford, considered abnormal, the students laugh at this notion. The Director starts to tell the students about their history. “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.Chapter three begins with the students watching children engaging in games and erotic play. ![]() Every change is a menace to stability.” ― Brave New WorldĢ3. “Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.” ― Brave New WorldĢ2. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.” ― Brave New WorldĢ1. “Isn’t there something in living dangerously?” ― Brave New WorldĢ0. Not somebody else, however jolly.” ― Brave New Worldġ9. “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” ― Brave New Worldġ8. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.” ― Brave New Worldġ7. “It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Brave New Worldġ6. I want to feel something strongly.” ― Brave New Worldġ5. “No social stability without individual stability.” ― Brave New Worldġ4. “A man can smile and smile and be a villain.” ― Brave New Worldġ3. You read and you’re pierced.”― Aldous Huxley, Brave New Worldġ2. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” ― Brave New Worldġ1. We are not our own masters.” ― Brave New Worldġ0. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. “We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. ![]() “Pain was a fascinating horror” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New Worldĩ. “I ate civilization.” ― Brave New WorldĨ. “Did you eat something that didn’t agree with you?” asked Bernard. “When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.” ― Brave New Worldħ. “Can you say something about nothing?” ― Brave New WorldĦ. Not somebody else, however jolly.” ― Brave New Worldĥ. “Ending is better than mending.” ― Brave New WorldĤ. “Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.” ― Brave New Worldģ. “But every one belongs to every one else” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New WorldĢ.
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