Stability? ...or insanity?

Mustapha Mond mentions, "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." He alludes to the universal principle of government in overseeing and forming its desired society. In A Brave New World this desired society is one of efficiency and controllability. Mond reveals that the achievement of such a vision is succeeded by distorting perceptions of the past.

Ford, the constructed society’s inspiration, is quoted to have said, “History is bunk. History is bunk” and thus is why “you’re taught no history.” This ignorance to historical record is essential when putting such things as family, monogamy, impulse, feeling, and desire into a favored perspective.

Mond reconstructs, “Home, home—a few small rooms, stiflingly over inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understarilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.” Mond establishes an unfavorable and exaggerated connection to family, and with no prior experience or knowledge the listeners unquestionably accept every words stated by the “prestigious” man.

Mond continuous, “No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty.” These characteristics are “dirtied” in a way by Mond and thus the people remain grateful with their current life.

Mond focuses on stability in a society. He states, “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” And he drives this message in by expressing that the ways of the earlier era caused the people to feel strongly; “And feeling strongly, how could they be stable?”

This I think brings us to the center of the manipulation taking place. The people are deprived of ever feeling strongly and thus are able to be controlled. And Mond influences the perception of feeling strong by saying it leads to a civilization being unstable.