Your theory hadn’t occurred to me, because I had assumed conditioning would have eliminated all rebellious impulses except the mildest ones such as Bernard’s, making the negative example of the Reservation largely unnecessary. Interesting that Bernard seems to find appeal in some aspects of Reservation life but finds the prospect of Iceland terrifying.
The amenities at the tourist destinations seem no different than what Bernard and Lenina could get back home, since the point of travel in the Fordian word is to consume. Huxley wrote decades before the American interstate highways led to homogeneity in the landscape.
Why was Huxley trying to compare Christianity with alcohol and soma? Through Mond, he implies that being Christian led people to drink and use drugs. Maybe I’m an oddity since I’ve never found anything comforting about either religion or mind-altering substances. The latter can be frightening because they reduce one’s sense of perception and self-control. I didn’t even like the Valium I was given for a minor surgical procedure.
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The amenities at the tourist destinations seem no different than what Bernard and Lenina could get back home, since the point of travel in the Fordian word is to consume. Huxley wrote decades before the American interstate highways led to homogeneity in the landscape.
Why was Huxley trying to compare Christianity with alcohol and soma? Through Mond, he implies that being Christian led people to drink and use drugs. Maybe I’m an oddity since I’ve never found anything comforting about either religion or mind-altering substances. The latter can be frightening because they reduce one’s sense of perception and self-control. I didn’t even like the Valium I was given for a minor surgical procedure.