Brand New World #3

In Chapter 3, we begin to learn about how the World State. Please explain how the following areas are different in the World State as compared to our world in 2009.

A) Sex, Monogamy & Romance

In the World State it is socially acceptable for little kids to involve them selfs in sexual activity, modern day these things would not be allowed, and extremely frowned upon. In the World State these 'games' are just looked upon as normal childs play, while childs play to us would be playground play, barbies, or sports. Dating is really open, to the point that it is encouraged to be with more then one person at once. There is no Monogamy and Romance, one of their proverbs is 'every one belongs to everyone else.'
B) Sports

There was no sports introduced in this chapter. In fact when the children are playing in the beginning of the chapter the people found it weird that children used to amuse themselves with sports like they do now.
C) Entertainment

All entertainment is in forms of 'dating' or flying or 'obstacle golf', things like reading for fun are frowned upon. Entertainment now has many many forms including reading and sports.
D) Parenthood

The children did not live with their families, they couldn't imagine what is was like to live with a mother or farther. "Try to realize what it was like to have a viviparous mother." "try to imagine what 'living with one's family' meant." When asked what a home was none of the people could respond. This is extremely different from life in our world. Not only are most children raised by their own parents (or some type of parent like guardianship) but family time is something is extremely important now a days. Constantly on TV is their ads for having 'family game nights' or making sure to have a sit down family meal. Also anybody could define what a home is.
E) Materialism

"I do love new clothes" is whispered in their ears by the sleepers, materialism is extremely huge and is how they live their lives. "Ending is better then mending. The more stitches, the less riches." "...compelled to consume so much a year. In the interests of the industry." Materialism leads their life. People are thought of as 'belonging to each other.' In our world today people are defiantly materialistic but not to the point that it defines us, nor to the point that we classify other people as belonging to eachother
F) Religion

The believe in Ford. He is like their version of God, but not a holy or spiritual figure, and is the only version their is. They have never even heard of Christianity, they do not have a God. They do not believe in heaven, and have never heard about it before. They also did not have an idea of the concept of the soul or imortality
G) Intoxicants

Pregnancy substitutes are something every women takes and they have a "regulation supply". They do not drink much alcohol. However they have this intoxicant called somma, which apparently gives the effects of alcohol without the after effects. In our world 'pregnancy subsitues' are used but not required. Also there is no such thing as soma, and alcohol is greatly used.


Finally, to the best of your ability, provide a brief history (a paragraph) of how the World State came to be.

The world state was founded by T. Ford. It was founded based off of the idea that society should be stable. The DHC hid all books, any thing religious, or anything that would give people new ideas. This way no one would question the way things were, creating social stability. Social stability is the main goal of the World State.