Mond explains that he “was given the choice to be sent to an island … or to be taken on to the Controllers’ Council with the prospect of succeeding in due course to an actual Controllership.”(Huxley) Mond was happy knowing and understanding the truth but believed that most people wouldn’t be. Mond was one of the individuals that were able to free themselves from the psychological shackles of the civilization’s manipulative mental conditioning. This is a position that he chose to take because he agreed with the concept that for the stability of civilization people’s happiness is better than their knowledge of the truth. Mustapha Mond is in a position of power in Huxley’s civilized world as one of only a few of the world’s Controllers. The totalitarian rulers in Huxley’s book do this not by oppressing their citizens but by giving them exactly what they want, or what they think they want - which is basically sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll - and lulling them into complacency.”(McGrath) Psychological manipulation of the mass public by authoritative institutions, while an extremely effective way to control Huxley’s Civilization and to provide and maintain its stability, is deeply flawed in that it incorrectly assumes a blanket standard for the human psyche as exemplified in the characters of controller Mustapha Mond, citizen Bernard Marx, and outsider John “The Savage”. The rulers have discovered that “all you need to do … is teach people to love their servitude. The characters are controlled not by force and fear but by manipulation through suggestion and pleasure. Written in 1931, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an intimate tale of a dystopian future where every detail of life in the main civilization is under the intense control of the accepted authority. Those who have for some reason or another been able to dissent and question the socially accepted norms. Have you ever heard someone call a group of people, “sheep” or say that someone is “woke”? They are usually referring to those who are or are not being seduced and deceived by propaganda.

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