Censored In Brave New World

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There are two sorts of censoring. One being the censoring of known things, another is the prohibiting knowledge of the unknown. Of the two, the latter is Huxley’s main concern. He expresses his alarm in the novel Brave New World through ideas of state conditioning, termination of the olds, and ridding society of opposition. To start, imagine being censored as an infant. The government having full control over who, what, and where you will be. In the novel, babies are lulled to sleep of by repetitive recordings of state suggestions. Such suggestions are referred to as hypnopaedic conditioning or sleep teaching and is used as a means of control over citizens. They only learn what the state allows, yet never know anything but the suggestions.