Chapter 1
Summary:
Tour in London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Tour led by the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC)
Bokonovski process
Caste system
Capitalism/ Not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to
Consumerism six months’ salary
Power/ We also predestine and condition
Conditioning
Dehumanisation (the system of labelling) a T for males, a circle for females
and for those who were destine to become free martins a
question mark
Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embry below
par.
(decanting room)
Uniformity/ Community, Identity, Stability
Castes/ Bokonovsky’s process is one of the major instruments of
Lack of social stability
individuality Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons
If we could Bokonovskify indefinitely the whole problem
would be solved
(Heredity, date of fertilization, membership of Bokonovski
group) details were transferred from test-tube to bottle. No
longer anonymous, but named, identified.
The lower the cate the shorter the oxygen
But in Epsilons we don’t ned human intelligence.
Six year old men and women wee too stupid to even do
Epsilon work
We condition them to thrive on heat
Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew
before