Pavian Conditioning In Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, society was transformed in hopes of creating a worldwide utopia, but it came with a price. It is a God given right to possess truth and knowledge, a biological right to viviparously produce and a social right to have close connections through monogamy and commitment. However, these things are strictly forbidden and scrutinized in society in order to increase happiness and quality of life, as strange as it sounds. It is achieved through pills and psychological conditioning. Because of this, their contentment and inability to handle stress without government provided medication would make re-establishing society undesirable if they were to escape world control. I believe that culture and society make

a painful and frightening stimulus was used to tie a terrible sensation to books and nature to condition them to dislike these things. Like the article said, those babies ended up linking the stimulus to that event because their conditioners built a connection between them. This was one of the several pieces of conditioning done on them, and by having this unconscious alteration, their minds would make it very difficult to return to normal standards of civilization and society if they were to escape the world controllers. Something frequently mentioned in the book is the use of Soma, a drug inspired by the anxiety medicine diazepam. Diazepam has a few names it goes by, like Valium or Soma, and it works similarly to the drug used in the book. Society teaches them to take Soma if they feel down, anxious, or any kind of negative emotion, rather than skills that help them cope with their