They’re told history is bunk, including religion and other stories contained in forbidden books like the Bible or anything else published before 150 A.F.

They’re repeatedly assured that everyone is happy now. They’re also conditioned about how to think and feel about the other social classes. They’re trained to know exactly what to think, say, feel and believe based on their predestined position in society. They receive messages when they sleep (called hypnopaedia) and conditioning, including shock therapy, while they’re awake. It provides uniformity and stability, he explains, if groups of identical individuals can all work in the same factories doing the same tasks.Ĭhildren are grown and conditioned at the Centre to be Alphas or Betas and downward to include the least intelligent Epsilons. He explains the Bokanovsky Process, in which groups of up to 96 identical human beings can be created at once. He shows them around the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, where children are mass-produced. The story opens with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC) explaining his work to young students.

Innovation and technology abound in this society, which abides by the motto “Community, Identity, Stability.”

Henry Ford’s name is reverenced and used the way Christians once used the Lord’s name. The year is 632 A.F., (which stands for After Ford).

Books like a brave new world