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And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn." They went out, laughing.

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The social standards in the new world are similar to the social standards that we live with today.  The idea of drugs and human sexuality becomes the status quo.  In chapter 6, Bernard asks Lenina if she wanted to be free. However due to Lenina’s conditioning, she does not know what it means to be truly free.  In today’s society, people take the idea of freedom for granted and live without the knowledge that they are free. The brave new world also allows for the use of drugs in daily life.  The new world is conditioned to take soma when exposed to unwanted, external emotions and ideas.  Today’s society is similar because when people feel stressed out they feel the need for drugs and/or alcohol use in order to calm themselves down, ultimately killing or almost killing themselves. Many people abuse these substances, causing their bodies to become reliant on the drug or alcohol, similar to the cravings of soma by the people of the new world.  Lenina clearly shows this in while on the reservation as she comes back to her hotel after a long day.  She feels the need to take a heavy dose of soma in order to get away from the harsh realities that she had endured on the reservation.  Another aspect that is incorporated into society is the exploitation of sex. The people of the new world indulge in sexual activities on a daily basis, being able to choose whichever partner they desire. These acts work as a conditioning stimulus for false happiness.

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"Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?"

"I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays."

He laughed, "Yes, 'Everybody's happy nowadays.' We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way."

"I don't know what you mean," she repeated. (6.1.27-32)

“Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again.” (9.1)

"And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn." They went out, laughing. (3.232)

"Orgy-porgy," the dancers caught up the liturgical refrain, "Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, kiss the girls…" And as they sang, the lights began slowly to fade—to fade and at the same time to grow warmer, richer, redder, until at last they were dancing in the crimson twilight of an Embryo Store. "Orgy-porgy…" In their blood-coloured and foetal darkness the dancers continued for a while to circulate, to beat and beat out the indefatigable rhythm. "Orgy-porgy…" Then the circle wavered, broke, fell in partial disintegration on the ring of couches which surrounded—circle enclosing circle—the table and its planetary chairs. "Orgy-porgy…" Tenderly the deep Voice crooned and cooed; in the red twilight it was as though some enormous negro dove were hovering benevolently over the now prone or supine dancers. (5.2.31)

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Science and Technology in the brave new world has taken control over the people’s minds.  In today’s society, we see similar results from advancements in technology because we rely on technology in our daily lives.  Many teenagers today spend the majority of their time on their phones or computers looking at social media.  The new world has buildings where everything is sterile and no light comes in.  We’ve come to a point where everything is sterile and we all spend our time inside instead of enjoying daylight, as shown in the first chapter of “Brave New World.”  The new world shows of a conditioned society that hates books and flowers.  Society today has also come to a point where we hate reading books and going outside to enjoy nature because we would rather spend our time on technology.  The idea of phosphorus recovery in the new world is similar to the idea of cremating people after they die in today’s society.  With the use of technology, we turn people into ashes that are buried underground for nature to use.  Science in the new world has driven people away from religious belief.  Similarly in today’s society, our generation has been driven away from church and religion due to technology being the only thing we spend time on.

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“The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.” (1.2)

"They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." The Director turned to his nurses. "Take them away again." (2.26)

"Phosphorus recovery," explained Henry telegraphically. "On their way up the chimney the gases go through four separate treatments. P2O5 used to go right out of circulation every time they cremated someone. Now they recover over ninety-eight per cent of it. More than a kilo and a half per adult corpse. Which makes the best part of four hundred tons of phosphorus every year from England alone." Henry spoke with a happy pride, rejoicing whole-heartedly in the achievement, as though it had been his own. "Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow." (5.1.5)

"Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. That's why I have to keep these books locked up in the safe." (17.28)

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Our society is evidently becoming more like civilization in the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. People in present time rely on technology for daily life, whether it’s using google maps to find a new place, or using your phone to communicate with other people, technology has become imbedded within the foundation of society. Social standards have changed because times have changed, society has evolved because of new advances within the technological and medical realms, now people can live longer with medicine which orients them with a different lifestyle in order to accommodate with added years.