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A society which lacks self expression is not a society that is thriving. Humans are unique and must have outlets in which they can showcase their personality and what makes them unique; however, in the new world people are created to be homogeneous which eliminates the necessity of expression.

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Even though Mond believes that eliminating undesirable emotions will solve the problems citizens face, this leads to bigger problems. Individuals no longer have a way to experience challenges which result in deeper levels of self awareness which is unfortunate.

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Mustapha Mond is by far the most terrifying character in Brave New World. His views on how society should be perfectly arranged are troubling because he is one of ten of the most powerful people in the world. A society that is led by a select few is the polar antonym of democracy, which is what Mustapha claims the state is. Every life in this society is essentially controlled by the ten world leaders. Mustapha reads the Bible which shows that he must have some belief in God, despite the fact that the society is trained to believe in "our Ford". He also proposes that "You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you to safety in the end" (223). This reveals that Mustapha highly values youth, which may be why he strives to create a society which does not experience the disadvantages of old age. In addition, the fact that he owns and reads literature that is not available to the masses indicates that he elevates himself above the citizens and desires to become more aware and intelligent than the people he controls.

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I completely agree with you. Our history and society is based around the things he is diminishing in this book; Christianity, art, love. Humans would not be who they are today, are there would not be as much interesting history if not for these things. Good insight.

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This is a new outlook on Mond that I had not thought of, but I actually really like. In a way, he does portray himself as a dictator, like Hitler. He thinks he is putting others happiness and interests before his and protecting them, when he is actually shutting them off from bigger and better possibilities.

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Mond believes that in order for society to truly be happy, the government has to eliminate all things that trigger emotions, such as passion and curiosity. He believes that the truth will unlock the society’s stability. "[…] chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices." He believes that people cannot handle their own liberty and happiness, they need help; which is why he puts others’ happiness in front of his own. He makes sure the truth never comes out and that people are always happy due to soma,” The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get... And if anything should go wrong, there's soma”. Due to his past, Mond had to “choose between happiness and what people used to call high art” while creating his precious society. Mond thinks he is sheltering the society from a world full of hurt and curiosity, but he is actually limiting their social outlook and emotions.

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I am heavily involved in the arts, and agree with you wholeheartedly. I cannot imagine my life without creativity and the freedom to express myself.

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I agree with you in that if no one tells me something is negative, I am likely to believe it is positive; especially true if my reality was altered.

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Mustapha Mond reminds me of Hitler. His views of a nothing pleasurable (as seen in the devaluation of the commitment of a sexual experience), no room for individual thought, not allowing members of the New World to feel, demonstrate his need for absolute control. He has developed a method to carry out a ''Final Solution"  for the World State to create a perfect society--eliminate anything that allows one to think, feel, or experience for themselves.  Mond views himself as the creator of this society,"... all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook." He has created a tough dish to chew! I tend to follow the views of the forefathers of our country, "All men are created equal..." and embrace much more liberal views.  I believe that a society that works together for the good of the whole to develop together through spirituality, the arts, education and personal choice while keeping in mind the benefit to the individual is the goal in the foundation of liberty.

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I agree that Mond makes extremely valid points about his society, the feelies being a great example, but he never outwardly betters the society. He is merely maintaining the stability of it all, so I wouldn't say that it is correct to assume that Mond has much care for the people in the society, just the society as a whole.

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I love everything you've written. Hypocrisy is the perfect word to describe Mond. He is full of contradictions as he himself is a contraction to both the societies ideals and to the "savages'" ideals.

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Mustapha Mond has a very apathetic and detached view of society, people and abstracts. He claims what he does is "serve happiness. Other people's--not [his]." However, his job is to make sure everyone remains happy without ever letting them know what unhappiness is. When speaking to John and Helmholtz after Bernard was taken out of the room, he says that he "preferred this," his life away from doing what he enjoyed to instead tend to the wellbeing of people, many of who he does not know. He believes there's no need to introduce anything to the people that could make them react negatively or upset the balance and stability created after the Nine Years' War. This way of life works, and no matter what it does to people individually, in the past they had made the decision that this was the way society was to be run, therefore it should be continued to be done in the same manner. Change was at one point good and now it has become bad. Mond continues to let life work this way because it has worked in the past and it is continuing to do so, but I believe he is wrong. Things are always changing, even if you try to stop them. I believe that even though Mond is intelligent as he is, he has also fallen victim to the conditioning he needs to avoid. Because to believe, according to him, means "one has been conditioned to believe them," and Mond certainly believes that the society he has to maintain is perfect. While I agree with him, I do not see anything wrong with believing. In Mond's case however, he remains contradictory and, as I mentioned in the beginning, detached from a lot of life.

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Good thoughts I like them. As proven in the case of Bernard, mental conditioning is not infallible, and it is almost certain that these old values will resurface.

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I agree completely. Unless something more powerful than soma is manufactured, Mond's society is doomed to grow stagnate and decay from the inside out.

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Mustapha Mond values stability above all else and views human fondness for love, creativity, and religion as obstacles, blemishes in his idea of a perfect world. Anything not directly contributing towards the advancement of society is deemed irrelevant and fit to be driven obsolete under his austere gaze. There is no room for culture, art, or even individuals in his "utopia." Everything that will ever be done must be in favor of the central government; everything else is considered a waste of time. Personally, as someone drawn to pretty much everything Mond would denounce, I find his views to be quite asinine. One would have to be ignorant of the entirety of human history in order to reach the same conclusions as he.

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I agree with you on the premise that religion and other fundamental aspects of culture can never be truly removed. Even Mustapha Mond possessed forbidden literary works and indulged in them. His lack of belief that people can create their own happiness in life strikes me as elitist, due to the fact that one man believes that he has exponentially more knowledge than those beneath him.

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Although he may believe he is acting in the best interest of his people, it is evident that the society in the novel is laden with underlying issues. We can see the concept of the lack of comparison in many societies throughout history, and even through modern governments. For example, the authoritarian government of North Korea forbid outside media in an attempt to convince their citizens of their own happiness. At the end of the day, censored and manipulated happiness only lead to short-term stability.

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Ironically enough, Mustapha Mond promotes fractured ideals of "unity" and "peace" over true freedom of expression. Although he was once a curious scientist, and despite the fact that he owns and enjoys forbidden literature, Mond idealizes a culture in which the community is devoid of emotion and expressions of unique human experiences. Mond's hypocrisy is evident throughout the novel. For example, he promotes profuse use of recreational drugs and the expulsion of individuality in order to create "stability". Mustapha Mond strongly believed in a society in which "nobody has any opportunity to be heroic," which stifled cultural growth, empathy, opportunity, and uniqueness. I believe that cultural development is a beautiful creation of human interaction, and it is birthed from concepts such as emotion, individuality, and the freedom to express oneself in any desired way. Although humans are inherently different, which can often lead to volatility, the negatives of such are far outweighed by the cultural and artistic benefits that arise from honesty, freedom, and differences amongst individuals. When people are given the freedom to live their own lives, happiness and peace will not always result. However, the happiness, customs, and beauty that do result are far more beautiful than any of their artificial and censored counterparts.

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Mond says in response to John's statement that "Othello's better than those feelies" that "Of course it is" but he makes the point that " that's the price we have to pay for stability" (Huxley 220). Having read the book we see that, so long as outside forces such as a Savage is not introduced, this sacrifice works. The citizens think of their horrible movies as good because they have nothing better to compare them to, so they are literally the best they have ever seen. In Huxley's world Mustapha thinks it does not matter how good the quality is as long as there is not a better quality to contrast with. Mond is acting for the betterment of his current society by sheltering them from the old arts.

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I agree with your idea that people need many of the things eliminated in the new world to be happy. I don't believe that a society in which everyone is content with simplicity is realistic. It is human instinct to constantly search for a purpose in life. It is unlikely that people, no matter their conditioning, would be fulfilled living a life where their only "purpose" is to have everything handed to them on a silver platter.

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I also sensed Mond's regret in having to keep certain things from the people, such as love and literature. He was almost like a parent trying to shelter their children from bad things in the world. He knew that if he allowed them to be exposed to the wonderful and beautiful things from the old world there was a chance that the whole society could just revert back to its old ways over time. He justified this when he discussed with John that the new world would not be stable if people were "attracted by the old things".

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I agree that Mustapha Mond does not believe people have the ability to create stable lives for themselves. He has little to no faith in humankind which is why he relies on science, medicine, and logic. While I think that science is necessary and important to our society, I do not think it should be the prevalent thing controlling our society. Things like science and medicine need to be balanced with things such as emotion, relationships, religion, etc. In order to achieve happiness we must have a balance of logic as well as emotion. It is ironic that while Mond praises stability, his society is limited and extremely narrow-minded with no balance whatsoever.

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I agree that Mustapha Mond is a strong advocate of stability and chooses to achieve this by keeping the citizens in the dark by hiding his forbidden books. He believes that by hiding the truth from the citizens, he is protecting them. I liked the fact that while you did not agree with his principles, you could understand his perspective and his motivation for his actions. I myself automatically rejected his ideas and maybe should have viewed it with a more open mind. It's interesting that you pointed out how people generally "tend to resent change and truth" because this is very true and I had not thought of that previously.

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I agree with you on your belief of Mustapha Mond. Everytime  he appears he seems to have a lack of care when it comes to the effects of him restricting things such as religion, love, and most other emotions. Because of his "stability" he's created a world where mostly everyone has a similar belief and those who don't share it will simply be disposed of so they won't correct the minds of the people he has carefully corrupted. I also like how you described us as a species because it's completely true. Without true emotions and curiosity of the world and our surroundings we would not be as happy as we are today.

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Mustapha Mond believes is a society of perfection where its citizens are ignorant to the truth in the world around them, yet are told that they are leading blissful lives, no matter how much they are actually missing. He seems to like order in his world, constantly referring to its "stability" and how everything should be kept in check; even its population, which he describes should be like an "iceberg - eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above." Hike he reads and seems to enjoy his collection of forbidden books, books like the Bible and works by Shakespeare, he keeps them away from the population due to the fact that it discusses radical ideas that he believes his perfect society wouldn't understand, concepts like God and love. At one point, he refers these old books as "pornographic," followed by saying that the order should be "God in the safe and Ford on the shelves." And while he believes that he's keeping the society perfect and clean from the horrific concepts that we find normal in today's world, in some ways I feel as though he knows that he's ruining the citizens. Early in the book, as he watches young children do"erotic play" he seems somewhat pleased to see this, though as he watches he says "suffer little children." I mostly disagree with Mond, seeing as he only helps the society's oblivious attitude towards the world. He holds back the things that many people need to hear and know about. Yet I can understand why he holds some things back. The society was corrupted before he became the Controller, so trying to tell this society the truth would only lead to hysteria, seeing as people, even today, tend to resent change and the truth.

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Mustapha Mond believes that a society which has no conflict is best even if that means sacrificing what many people consider worth living for, like love and religion. He doesn’t view depriving citizens of beautiful plays and literature as cruel because it is necessary to prevent any controversial issues from surfacing. He also knows that because of their conditioning, people would not be able to understand some of the ideas represented by these works of art. Moreover, he does not believe that people have enough instinct to create a stable life for themselves, but that their lives must be carefully orchestrated using methods, such as conditioning. He is convinced that the everlasting “youth and prosperity” the people have created allows them to be “independent of God”. I have views that are rather different than the character of Mustapha Mond. I don’t think a world without God or religion will ever come about. It is so ingrained in cultures worldwide, and it is a universal idea that takes many shapes and forms. It would be nearly impossible to completely erase from the curious human mind the idea that there is no higher power or bigger picture. I also disagree that stability is the most important aspect of a society. It takes away too much of what makes us human. Our strong emotions, relationships, creativity, hunger for knowledge and understanding, and desire to push boundaries is what makes us unique as a species. All of these things disappear in Brave New World.

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Mustapha Mond believes in a society of order and stability, and the only way to achieve this is to eliminate things like art, books, music, film,  etc. because these sources contain ideas about love, religion, freedom, etc. Mond describes these things as "symptoms of political inefficiency." Allowing people to learn about these ideas would lead to curiosity which would be the end of the society Mustapha Mond created. Mond wants his society to run like a well-oiled machine, efficiently with no errors, and if this means sacrificing the things that make us human then that is what must happen. Additionally, a stable society means that nothing must be complicated or overly difficult. This way, people will not yearn for an easier, simpler way of life. If everything comes easily to them, they are content and have no desire for anything else. The society Mond controls is similar to communism in that "everyone belongs to everyone" and everything belongs to everyone. When everyone shares everything equally, everything essentially loses value and people lose incentive and lack motivation to work towards something greater than the good of society. Mustapha Mond depends of this comfortableness to ensure that people are content with their lives and are not attached to anything or anyone. Mond also abolished religion to ensure that people would not view anything greater than the society. He points out that "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness." Religion is just one of many things that Mustapha Mond deems incompatible with his carefully crafted society of stability built on "machinery" and "medicine." Personally, I disagree with Mond and believe that a hunger for efficiency is the downfall of society. People get so caught up in efficiency that they forget to think and to feel. We thrive on companionship and knowledge and the lack of this leads to loneliness and boredom. It is important to form bonds with people and learn new things so that you have something to live for. People need emotions, friendships, families, religion, art, education, etc. in order to be well-rounded, happy individuals.

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