"Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn't see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour. Two hundred and sixty-seven days at eight metres a day. Two thousand one hundred and thirty-six metres in all" (7). In this section of the novel a group of students are being taken around the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Aldous Huxley describes this utopia as a very scientific and calculated society. The citizens of this community plan every detail out and know the effects of all their conditioning treatments. Through these actions we see that this society has taken the emotion and hard work out of the people and simplify most jobs (such as creating 96 people from the same embryo). This utopia dehumanizes humans from the beginning, determining the destiny of everyone by how they are developed. People are conditioned to like their jobs. The people are motivated to work by the conditioning treatments they receive while they are still young. This causes the government to be not as strict and allows for a small number of social misfits and rebels due to the strong conditioning system this society offers. The order is also kept by the social hierarchy, the workers at the hatchery determine the intelligence and social class of the people by using different methods (oxygen deprivation). The primary goals of the society seems to try and perfect a society where every person is satisfied with their own lives.
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