High-caste Alpha Bernard Marx will be happy to dole them out, like candy, to anyone who seems even the least out of sorts.īut if everyone’s so happy, Bernard wonders, why did a utopian worker just jump off a balcony and kill himself? Disconnect If anything does happen to upend one’s emotional equilibrium, one can always take drugs. “Everyone belongs to everyone else,” goes the mantra.Īnd privacy? Why, that’s practically a myth in our own timeline. To do otherwise is selfish and retrograde, and any lingering attachment is quickly snuffed out as a threat to the social order. Sex is still a thing, but monogamy is not: People are encouraged to jump from partner to partner without a thought. Job dissatisfaction is a thing of the past, since everyone’s biologically wired and mentally conditioned to enjoy their jobs. Rather, people are hatched, as it were-genetically programmed to fit in one of New London’s strict social orders and like it, by gum. No one has any family problems, because there are no families. New London is indeed a place where everyone seems to sport a look of serene detachment, taking in the beauty and wonder of this technological paradise with a self-satisfied smile. So we’re told at the beginning of Brave New World, the Peacock streaming service’s first flagship program.
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