Chapter 3
Summary:
Savage reservation
Bernard Marx is criticised
Erotic play
Emotions are not good
Feelies – 4D movies that arouse people
Rituals/ Ordinary erotic play
Dehumanising Exquisite little creatures
Before the time of Our Ford, and even for some
generations after, erotic play between children
had been regarded as abnormal.
Poor little kids not allowed to amuse
themselves
Talking about her as tough she were a piece of
meat
And what’s worse, she thinks of herself as meat
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol,
none of their defects
A gramme is better than a damn
Uniformity/ Those who feel themselves despised do well to
Lack of identity/ look despising
Castes Try to realise what it was like to have a
viviparous mother
Two thousand million inhabitants had only ten
thousand names between them
How I loathe intravenals (emotions)
Do you mean to tell me you’re still going out
with Henry Foster (promiscuity)
Everyone belongs to everyone else
And what’s worse, she thinks of herself as meat
(Bernard)
Ford, how I hate them!
Capitalism/ Unless it can be shown that it requires at least
Consumerism as much apparatus as the most complicated of
existing games
Ending is better than mending
Power/ History is bunk
Conditioning Everyone belongs to everyone else
Stability, the primal and the ultimate need
Liberty to be inefficient and miserable