Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Social Conditioning
In the book BNW many people are appalled by the social conditioning of the people through the sleep hypnosis. They say that conditioning is not humane or right and takes away their free will and leaves them as zombies such as Lenina. However John, the savage, even though he did not grow up there has his own social conditioning it just happened to be while he was awake instead of sleeping which proved to be almost just as effective. The only reason it seems wrong is because they were conditioned differently so they disagree on what is right because they both believe each other wrong and odd in what they are doing. In truth the only reason we see Lenina being in the wrong ourselves is because we were conditioned more closely to what John was in that we believe such things as men and women are supposed to have just one partner instead of many and things such as sex and pleasure are not to be taken so lightly. The conditioning only differs in that instead of being told by someone in our sleep we are raised to act like those around us and most of the time end up shadowing their own belief systems.
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How does their conditioning prevent them from ever really understanding each other?
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