Huxley may have shared the Catholic stance that birth control devalues the individual. The Church implies that decoupling sex from procreation either stems from a rejection of parenthood or causes such rejection.
Good observation about conservative religion's treatment of the individual. It requires love of people to take a lower priority to the love of God because it functions to preserve the social position of a small elite, whether it's Wahhabi in Saudi Arabia or evangelicalism in the former slave states in the US South. That's the confusing part of Fordism - in real life, the subsuming of the individual to consumption would benefit an elite at everyone else's expense, yet the World State has no elite as we understand the concept. Mustapha Mond seems more like a high-level bureaucrat, possessing some power but not living the life of a wealthy titled aristocrat.
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Date: 2017-11-21 11:38 am (UTC)Good observation about conservative religion's treatment of the individual. It requires love of people to take a lower priority to the love of God because it functions to preserve the social position of a small elite, whether it's Wahhabi in Saudi Arabia or evangelicalism in the former slave states in the US South. That's the confusing part of Fordism - in real life, the subsuming of the individual to consumption would benefit an elite at everyone else's expense, yet the World State has no elite as we understand the concept. Mustapha Mond seems more like a high-level bureaucrat, possessing some power but not living the life of a wealthy titled aristocrat.