Brave New World Chapter 3- Before the World State Existed...

(Individuality is/is not harmful to a Society.)

"Stability," said the Controller, "stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability." His voice was a trumpet. Listening they felt larger, warmer.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning–for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment" (Huxley 42).

 

In chapter 3 of Brave New World, an in depth look at how society is viewed since before the World State. The controller brings up the topic of "stability", which is very important for the success of the society. When the controller says "No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability", it shows that in order for a society to function even with Social stability, there needs to be Individual stability. This all means that even though they want society to be bias and have uniform ideas that will not become if individuals were not able to independently/separately think on their own or create their own opinions. Also when mentioned "Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment", this shows that multiple things like the wheels to turn, men to tend, and wheels upon axles, all correlate and need one another to properly function. Which is not a harmful thing like being individual within a society that contains other individuals, which then is contained into a general society. Being individual is not a bad thing, but being an individual with other individuals who may or may not have the same beliefs is not a harmful thing.   

Brave New World Chapter 2- Conditioning Future Generations

"Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

"Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too–all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides–made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!" The Director almost shouted in his triumph. "Suggestions from the State." He banged the nearest table. "It therefore follows …"" (Huxley 28).

 

Within Chapter 2 of Brave New World, a large part in the engineering of the humans is conditioning. The conditioning called "Hypnopaedia", which is sleep teaching, is taught to the Beta children during their sleep, in order to instill in them pride and happiness regarding the caste system. The director really believes that Hypnopaedia is one of the greatest ways to control and instill messages into the children so that when they become adults they don't think otherwise. Messages that would provoke the children to believe that there caste is better than others, and falsely instilling in them that they are happy in their predestined caste. In reality only they would be able to decide if they are happy in the caste, but with repetitive messaging they are forced to believe they are happy. This type of teaching is hindering the people to be able to think and have their own personal opinions. And ultimately depriving them of being individuals especially when they are all repetitively taught the same messages. Teaching children at a young age all the same information can be a positive thing but only if the messages of information are valid and non-bias. 

Brave New World, Chapter 1- The Formation of Uniform Batches

"My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you see?" He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!"

Major instruments of social stability.

Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg.

"Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved."

Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." (Huxley 5-6)

 

In the first chapter of Brave New World, the audience is introduced to a new "World State" which consists of a society where the population is genetically engineered. The Director of Hatchery believes in "Bokanovsky's Process", which is a process that is seen as a key aspect in having the perfect society and world through the cloning of humans. It is encouraged from the director to the students that the stability of their world is due to the similarity of each caste, the caste's include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon. These caste's also determine their destiny; where one is in the community of the world, and whether they are "future sewage workers"(Alphas) or "future world controllers"(epsilons). In some ways it might be beneficial to have a society with many positive similarities, however it may also be harmful and bland to live in a world with a single identity.

Brave New World Anchor Statement

Individuality IS/IS NOT (Qualify) a threat to a harmonious society.