1. Equality and conformity have been created through breeding. They produce large amounts of identical embryo's which differ from class to class and are controlled in every and then designed to fit the societal roles that correspond to their class. Conformity and equality have been created through careful control. Huxley points out that the Bokanovsky process that has been developed is one of the major tools for social stability (21). In only one way has equality not been completely established and that is across class lines, but within class things are as equal as possible.
2. Conflict has been eliminated through the elimination of choice. Religion has been basically eliminated other than the deification of Henry Ford. Relationships are confined within social classes and since offspring comes through cloning almost all sexual conflict is eliminated. The once "mad and wicked and miserable" people have been conditioned and breed to be what their class ordains and experience no strong emotion.
3. Everyone within a class is almost identical and performs identical roles. Within these roles freedom of thought has been suppressed and very effectively contained. In addition the drug soma which eerily resembles the Victory Gin of 1984 we are all so familiar with controls happiness and keeps the masses happy.
4. To the American raised and breed on free thinking individualism the label dystopia is quick to thought, but in actuality it is a utopia. Happiness and equality are prevalent and exist in most facets. It may seem awful to the outsider, but the societal system works and seems to effectively produce happiness and equality forming a utopia.
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