CHAPTER 2
Huxley's word choices show the cold atmosphere that is present in the World State. For example, eight-month-old babies are "unloaded" from carts, and babies are "decanted" not born. Any reference to babies developing inside the mother's womb is considered indecent.

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The Director and the students never flinch when babies are tortured by loud sirens and shocked electrically. Neither do they find derogatory descriptions of the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon children repugnant. Instead they are brainwashed to accept it all. The embarrassed behavior of the students when normal childbirth and the word mother or father is mentioned shows how they have been programmed to consider birth and parenthood obscene instead of natural. This brainwashing leaves very little room for individual thinking.

The government used the scientific discovery of hypnopaedia to produce a technology that helps them condition citizens to enjoy the life that has been predetermined for them and do things that help industrial society. The success of these methods is evident in the fact that everyone on the tour is proud of these accomplishments. World State's citizens think that their slavery is paradise.

“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse.”

Next, he explains the origins of hypnopaedia (sleep-teaching). A Polish boy, Rueben, went to sleep one night while the radio was broadcasting in English. He woke up the next morning able to recite exactly what had been playing on the radio, even though he didn't understand it. While it was discovered that hypnopaedia had no use in intellectual education as it only provided memorization, it was perfect for moral training. The Director then leads the students into a dormitory where Betas are sleeping. From speakers under every pillow the same voice whispers an Elementary Class Consciousness lesson. The voice says how good it is to be a Beta. Alphas have to work too hard, and the lower three castes (Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons) are stupid and wear ugly colors. The message repeats, over and over again, everyday, until the Betas start to believe it.