Brave New World: Implications of Absolute Government Control

This book is about a society that is completely controlled by the government. In our society, the government controlls what we do by passing laws that tell us what we can and can't do. In this society, however, the government controls its citizens through a much more direct means. The government actually controls what the people think and do by affecting their early devlopment. This means that everyone in society is just another limb of the society and isn't actually a free-thinking human being. Not that there aren't any upsides to having absolute government control. The society is much more peaceful because the government tells them to be peaceful. Society also becomes incredibly efficient if you can create workers with almost no ability to think to work the factories, never going on strikes, and always content with their position. The controversy is that when you control people, you take away their freewill and therefore take away their ability to have true happiness. This assumes that blind blissful ignorance is not true happiness.