First Brave New World Post

The One State has not created equality. However, everyone is basically brainwashed into being satisfied with their role in life, which reduces conflict. The government has done away with anything that they claim causes unhappiness and angst, such as relationships and religion. Religion has been replaced with loyalty and happiness-inducing drugs, and relationships have been replaced with casual, non-committed hook-ups. People don't really need rights, because they're forced into happiness, with drugs and hypnopaedia. I believe that this society is a dystopia because, while it seems to work, people have no choice in almost anything in their lives, which are carefully controlled to ensure maximum happiness. A real utopia would give people the right to choose their path in life, and have the freedom of free thought. Instead, hypnopaedia influences people's minds in their sleep, telling them that people in lower classes are stupid and inferior, and people in higher classes have to do far more work. Technicians predetermine one's career field and social status at "birth." Citizens of the One State are repressed their whole lives, but are carefully made to not feel repressed. While cleverly disguised as an ideal society, the One State is clearly a dystopia.