In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most sacred aphorisms of our culture: motherhood, home, family, freedom, and even love. He indicates that happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sport, promiscuous sex, "the feelies", and a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma. His Brave New World is essentially a benevolent oligarchy, under the direction of ten world controllers; their spokesman is Mustapha …showed first 75 words of 833 total…

…showed last 75 words of 833 total…a drug is to a particularly safe way to keep society stable. Also, the very things which I think make us human have been taken away by the controllers in the Brave New World. The randomness of life, love, freethinking, fear hate; are no longer left up to an individual. It may improve the quality of life, and on average the quality of life might be better, but this would be o way to live.